{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/964",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment in relation to child support maintenance",
  "text": "After regulation 6 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation—\n“Child support maintenance\n6A (1) Except in circumstances where paragraph (2) applies, any payment of child support maintenance to a resident shall not be treated as part of a resident’s income or capital for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(2) Where a resident is accompanied by a child and accommodation is provided for that child under Part III of the Act, any payment of child support maintenance made in respect of that child to the resident shall be treated as part of the income of the resident and Part IV of these Regulations (liable relatives) shall not apply to any such payment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As respects England and Wales, see section 21(1)(aa) of the National Assistance Act 1948, inserted by section 42(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; as respects Scotland, see section 22(7) of the 1948 Act, as applied by section 87(3) and (4) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/964/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:58:52.864423+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."
}