{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/schedule-9B/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/schedule-9B/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule/9B/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991,\n“beneficiary” means a person who has been awarded a specified benefit and includes each member of a joint-claim couple awarded joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance,\n“fee” means any collection fee under Part 3 of the Child Support Fees Regulations 2014 which is payable by the non-resident parent,\n“maintenance”, except in paragraph 3(1), means maintenance which a non-resident parent is liable to pay under the Act at a flat rate of child support maintenance (or would be so liable but for a variation having been agreed to), and that rate applies (or would have applied) because he falls within paragraph 4(1)(b) or (c) or 4(2) of Schedule 1 to the Act, and includes such maintenance payable at a transitional rate in accordance with Regulations made under section 29(3)(a) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000,\n“specified benefit” means either a benefit, pension or allowance mentioned in section 5(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and which is prescribed for the purpose of paragraph 4(1)(b) or (c) of Schedule 1 to the Act or a war disablement pension or a war widow’s pension within the meaning of section 150(2) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9B inserted (31.1.2001) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/18), regs. 1(1), 2(b), Sch. (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9B para. 1 inserted (12.8.2014) by The Child Support Fees Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/612), regs. 1(4), 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9B para. 1 inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1950), regs. 1(2), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9B para. 1 substituted (4.7.2019) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1084), regs. 1(3), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/schedule/9B/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:50.477745+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."
}