{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-2000/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-2000/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110188640",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Suspension and termination of a reduced benefit decision where the sole qualifying child ceases to be a child or where the parent concerned ceases to be a person with care",
  "text": "(1) Where a reduced benefit decision is in operation and—\n(a) there is, in relation to that decision, only one qualifying child, and that child ceases to be a child within the meaning of the Act; or\n(b) the parent concerned ceases to be a person with care,\nthe decision shall be suspended from the last day of the benefit week during the course of which the child ceases to be a child within the meaning of the Act, or the parent concerned ceases to be a person with care, as the case may be.\n(2) Where, under the provisions of paragraph (1), a decision has been suspended for a period of 52 weeks and no relevant benefit is payable at that time, it shall cease to be in force.\n(3) If during the period specified in paragraph (2) the former child again becomes a child within the meaning of the Act or the parent concerned again becomes a person with care and relevant benefit is payable to, or in respect of, that parent, a reduction in the amount of that benefit shall be made in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (6) of regulation 13.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110188640/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:19.790053+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."
}