{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-68.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1506",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may revoke any provision of regulations which prescribes a higher rate of child benefit in the case of a lone parent, notwithstanding anything in section 141(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (which precludes regulations from prescribing a rate lower than the rate it replaces).\n(2) In this Article “lone parent” means a parent who—\n(a) has no spouse or civil partner or is not living with his spouse or civil partner; and\n(b) is not living with any other person as if spouses of each other .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "prosp. in pt. functions transf. by 2002 c. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2004 c.33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 68(2)(b) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(a) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 68(3) omitted (13.1.2020) by virtue of The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(b) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:59.445846+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."
}