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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-76",
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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/76",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Meaning of “child” for the purposes of the 1991 Act",
  "text": "The prescribed condition for the purposes of section 55(1) of the 1991 Act (that is the condition that must be satisfied if a person who has attained the age of 16 but not the age of 20 is to fall with the meaning of “child”) is that the person is a qualifying young person as defined in section 142(2) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 55 was substituted by section 42 of the 2008 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4. Section 142 defines the terms “child” and “qualifying young person” for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit. A child is a person under 16 and a qualifying young person is a person aged 16 or over who satisfies conditions in regulations made by Her Majesty’s Treasury. The relevant regulations are S.I.2006/223 amended by S.I. 2007/2150, 2008/1879 and 2009/3268."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111526132/regulation/76",
    "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."
}