{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-miscellaneous-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111473092",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-support-miscellaneous-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “patient” insert—\n““pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995;”;\n(b) after the definition of “profit-related pay” insert—\n““qualifying age for state pension credit” means—\n(a) in the case of a woman, pensionable age; or\n(b) in the case of a man, the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man;”.\n(3) In regulation 9(1)(d) (exempt income: calculation or estimation of E), for “aged less than 60” substitute “who had not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit”.\n(4) In regulation 18(2)(a)(iii) (excessive housing costs), for “were aged less than 60” substitute “had not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit”.\n(5) In Schedule 2, after paragraph 15 insert—\n“15A. A payment made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 by way of In-Work Credit, Better Off In-Work Credit or Return to Work Credit.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 26; paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 was amended by: paragraph 39 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16); paragraph 13 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5); paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 50; section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111473092/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:58:06.932593+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."
}