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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 157 

1964 c.21

157.(1) Where during any period (in this section referred to as "the period of
default")

(a)a person was liable to make contributions under section 155 in respect of a
person under the age of sixteen; but

(b)no order under section 156 was in force requiring him to make the
contributions;

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) the last part of the period of default
shall be taken to be the last three months thereof and such time, if any,
preceding the last three months as is equal to the time during which it
continued after the making of the complaint seeking the arrears order.

(3) No complaint seeking an arrears order shall be made later than three
months after the end of the period of default.

(4) An arrrears order shall be treated as a contribution order, and payments
under it as contributions, for the purposes of section 110 of the Magistrates'
Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 and of sections 155(4) and (5), 156(7), 160
and 177(1)(e).

(5) A person liable to make payments under an arrears order shall, except at a
time when he is under a duty to give information of his address under
section 111(1) or 146(1), keep the person to whom the payments are to be made
informed of his address; and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
[#50].

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