{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-maintenance-bonus-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-maintenance-bonus-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3195",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-maintenance-bonus-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amount payable",
  "text": "(1) The amount of the bonus shall be—\n(a) subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a sum representing the aggregate of—\n(i) £5 for each benefit week in the bonus period in which the amount of child maintenance payable was not less than £5; and\n(ii) where in any benefit week in the bonus period the amount of child maintenance payable was less than £5, the amount that was payable;\n(b) the amount of the child maintenance paid in the bonus period; or\n(c) £1,000,\nwhichever amount is the least\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) So much of any child maintenance paid in excess of the amount either—\n(a) declared for the purposes of determining the amount of qualifying benefit payable to the applicant or her partner; or\n(b) retained by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 74A(3) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992,\nshall be disregarded in determining the amount payable under paragraph (1).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Where but for this paragraph the amount of bonus payable in accordance with paragraph (1) would be less than £5, the amount of the bonus shall be Nil.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2-13 revoked by SI 2000/3176 reg. 4(1)(a) (as substituted) (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Premium and Miscellaneous Amendments) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/231), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2) omitted (6.4.1997) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/454), regs. 1(b), 8(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5(4) omitted (6.4.1997) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/454), regs. 1(b), 8(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3195/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:08.092889+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."
}