{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-1/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-1/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a child lives, or is to live, with a person as the result of a child arrangements order, a local authority may make contributions to that person towards the cost of the accommodation and maintenance of the child.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the person with whom the child lives, or is to live, is a parent of the child or the husband or wife or civil partner of a parent of the child.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 15 substituted (22.4.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 2 para. 40(4); S.I. 2014/889, art. 4(f) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2014/1042, arts. 3, 4, 6-10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 15(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 78(3); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15 wholly in force at 14.10.1991, see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/1/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}