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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-2000/schedule-I/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-2000/schedule-I/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/I/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interruption of full-time education",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in determining whether a person falls within section 55(1)(b) of the Act no account shall be taken of a period (whether beginning before or after the person concerned attains age 16) of up to 6 months of any interruption to the extent to which it is accepted that the interruption is attributable to a cause which is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case; and where the interruption or its continuance is attributable to the illness or disability of mind or body of the person concerned, the period of 6 months may be extended for such further period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case.\n(2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to any period of interruption of a person’s full-time education which is likely to be followed immediately or which is followed immediately by a period during which—\n(a) provision is made for the training of that person, and for an allowance to be payable to that person, under work-based training for young people or, in Scotland, Skillseekers training; or\n(b) he is receiving education by virtue of his employment or of any office held by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110188640/schedule/I/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}