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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-70",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111526132",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Non-resident parent on a flat rate or nil rate with gross weekly income",
  "text": "(1) A case is a case for a variation for the purposes of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 4B to the 1991 Act where—\n(a) the non-resident parent’s liability to pay child support maintenance under a maintenance calculation which is in force or has been applied for is or would be—\n(i) the nil rate by virtue of the non-resident parent being one of the persons referred to in paragraph (3); or\n(ii) the flat rate by virtue of the non-resident parent receiving a benefit, pension or allowance mentioned in regulation 44(1) (flat rate);\n(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that the non-resident parent has an amount of income that would be taken into account in the maintenance calculation as gross weekly income if sub-paragraph (a) did not apply; and\n(c) that income is equal to or more than £100 per week.\n(2) Where a variation is agreed to under this regulation, the non-resident parent is treated as having additional income of the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(b).\n(3) The persons referred to are—\n(a) a child;\n(b) a prisoner;\n(c) a person receiving an allowance in respect of work-based training for young people, or in Scotland, Skillseekers training;\n(d) a person referred to in regulation 45(1)(e) (persons resident in a care home or independent hospital etc.).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111526132/regulation/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:30.192637+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."
}