{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculations-and-special-cases-regulations-2000/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculations-and-special-cases-regulations-2000/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110188624",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-maintenance-calculations-and-special-cases-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Nil rate",
  "text": "The rate payable is nil where the non-resident parent is—\n(a) a student;\n(b) a child within the meaning given in section 55(1) of the Act;\n(c) a prisoner;\n(d) a person who is 16 or 17 years old and—\n(i) in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance; or\n(ii) a member of a couple whose partner is in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance;\n(e) a person receiving an allowance in respect of work-based training for young people, or in Scotland, Skillseekers training;\n(f) a person in a residential care home or nursing home who—\n(i) is in receipt of a pension, benefit or allowance specified in regulation 4(1) or (2); or\n(ii) has the whole or part of the cost of his accommodation met by a local authority;\n(g) a patient in hospital who is in receipt of income support whose applicable amount includes an amount under paragraph 1(a) or (b) of Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations (patient for more than 6 weeks);\n(h) a person in receipt of a benefit specified in regulation 4(1) the amount of which has been reduced in accordance with the provisions of regulations 4(d) and 6 of the Social Security Hospital In-Patients Regulations 1975 (circumstances in which personal benefit is to be adjusted and adjustment of personal benefit after 52 weeks in hospital); or\n(i) a person who would be liable to pay the flat rate because he satisfies the description in paragraph 4(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Act but his net weekly income, inclusive of—\n(aa) any benefit, pension or allowance that he receives which is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act; and\n(bb) any benefit that he or his partner receives which is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 4(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Act,\nis less than £5 a week.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/555. Regulation 4(d) has been amended by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.I. 1987/1683 and regulation 6 has been amended by section 18(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), regulation 3 of S.I. 1977/1963, regulation 2 of S.I. 1987/31 and regulation 2 of S.I. 1987/1683."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110188624/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:20.241728+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."
}