{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-voluntary-payments-regulations-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-voluntary-payments-regulations-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3177",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Voluntary Payments) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-voluntary-payments-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Voluntary Payments) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 28J of the Act as inserted by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 comes into force.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act\" means the Child Support Act 1991;\n“debit card\" means a card, operating as a substitute for a cheque, that can be used to obtain cash or to make a payment at a point of sale whereby the card holder’s bank or building society account is debited without deferment of payment;\n...\n“the qualifying child’s home\" means the home in which the qualifying child resides with the person with care ...; and\n“relevant person\" means—\n(a)a person with care;\n(b)a non-resident parent;\n(c)a parent who is treated as a non-resident parent under regulation 50 of the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012;\n(d)where the application for a maintenance calculation is made by a child under section 7 of the Act, that child,\nin respect of whom a maintenance calculation has been applied for, ... or is or has been in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (10.12.2012 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4)) by virtue of The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), regs. 1(4), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (10.12.2012 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4)) by virtue of The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), regs. 1(4), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (10.12.2012 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4)) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), regs. 1(4), 7(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (27.10.2008) by virtue of Child Support (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2543), regs. 1, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2000 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3177/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:49.723366+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}