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Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000

Paragraph 10C: References to various terms

40.The provisions of this paragraph set the definitions of various terms used in this Schedule.

  • Qualifying children: Children who are living apart from one or both parents and for whom the maintenance calculation falls to be made.

  • Relevant other children: Children in respect of whom either the non-resident parent or his partner receives Child Benefit*, or in respect of whom certain other prescribed conditions are met.  For example, it is intended to prescribe for a child to be a relevant other child where child benefit entitlement conditions are not yet met because the child has not been resident in the United Kingdom for more than 26 weeks.

  • A person “receives” a benefit, pension or allowance for any week for which it is paid or due to be paid.

  • A person’s partner: the other member of a couple. Or, in the case of a marriage under a law which permits polygamy, another party to the marriage who is of the opposite sex and is a member of the same household.

  • A couple: a man and woman who are married and members of the same household or not married and living together as husband and wife.

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