Made | 23rd January 2001 | ||
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1 |
1. | Citation and commencement |
2. | Interpretation |
3. | Decision and notice of decision |
4. | Revision, supersession and appeal of conversion decisions |
5. | Outstanding applications at calculation date |
6. | Applications for a departure direction or a variation made after calculation date |
7. | Grounds on which a conversion decision may not be revised, superseded or altered on appeal |
8. | Outstanding appeals at calculation date |
9. | Amount of child support maintenance payable |
10. | Circumstances in which a transitional amount is payable |
11. | Transitional amount - basic, reduced and most flat rate cases |
12. | Transitional amount in flat rate cases |
13. | Transitional amount - certain flat rate cases |
14. | Certain cases where the new amount is payable |
15. | Case conversion date |
16. | Conversion calculation and conversion decision |
17. | Relevant departure direction and relevant property transfer |
18. | Effect on conversion calculation - special expenses |
19. | Effect on conversion calculation - property or capital transfer |
20. | Effect on conversion calculation - additional cases |
21. | Effect on conversion calculation - relevant property transfer |
22. | Effect on conversion calculation - maximum amount payable where relevant departure direction is on additional cases ground |
23. | Effect of relevant departure direction on conversion calculation - general |
24. | Phasing amount |
25. | Maximum transitional amount |
26. | Subsequent decision effective on case conversion date |
27. | Subsequent decision with effect in transitional period - amount payable |
28. | Linking provisions |
29. | Interpretation |
30. | Cases to which this Part applies |
31. | Amount payable during the transitional period |
32. | Revision and supersession |
33. | Saving in relation to revision of, or appeal against, a conversion or subsequent decision |
whether as originally made or as revised under Article 18 of the Order, or decided on appeal;
(b) if earlier, the period from the case conversion date up to the date when the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent is equal to the new amount or the subsequent decision amount, as the case may be; and
(2) For the purposes of the definition of "commencement date" in paragraph (1) -
(b) in the application of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations, where no maintenance enquiry form, as defined in the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations, is given or sent to the non-resident parent, regulation 3(7) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations[17] (relationship between maintenance assessments and certain court orders) shall apply as if the reference to the date when the maintenance enquiry form was given or sent were to the date on which the non-resident parent is first notified by the Department, orally or in writing, that an application for child support maintenance has been made in respect of which he is named as the non-resident parent.
(2) Where the Department acts in accordance with paragraph (1) the information used for the purposes of that supersession will be that held by the Department on the calculation date.
(3) Where a superseding decision referred to in paragraph (1) is made the Department shall -
(4) Where at the calculation date there is an interim maintenance assessment in force and there is insufficient information held by the Department to make a maintenance assessment, or a decision in accordance with paragraph (1), the Department shall -
(5) In a case to which paragraph (1)(c) or (4) applies, where after the calculation date information is made available to the Department to enable it to make a maintenance assessment it may -
(6) A decision referred to in paragraph (1) or (4) shall take effect from the case conversion date.
Revision, supersession and appeal of conversion decisions
4.
- (1) Subject to this Part, where -
such application, action or appeal shall be decided under the Decisions and Appeals Regulations and except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), notification shall be given in accordance with regulation 3(3).
(2) Where the Department acts in accordance with paragraph (1) it shall notify -
(3) Where after the calculation date -
the Department may revise or supersede the conversion decision in accordance with the Decisions and Appeals Regulations.
(4) In their application to a decision referred to in these Regulations, the Decisions and Appeals Regulations shall be modified so as to provide, on any revision or supersession of a conversion decision under Article 18 or 19, respectively, of the Order, that -
(5) In this Part, for the purposes of any revision or supersession, a conversion decision shall include a subsequent decision.
Outstanding applications at calculation date
5.
Where at the calculation date there is outstanding an application for a maintenance assessment or a departure direction, or under Article 18 or 19 of the former Order for the revision or supersession of a maintenance assessment, an interim maintenance assessment or a departure direction, the Department may -
supersede the maintenance assessment or the interim maintenance assessment in accordance with regulation 3.
Applications for a departure direction or a variation made after calculation date
6.
- (1) Where an application for a departure direction or a variation is made after notification of the conversion decision the Department shall -
make a decision under the Departure Regulations; or
(c) where the grounds of the application are subject only to a determination under the Variations Regulations, treat the application as an advance application for a variation.
(2) Where the Department has made a decision or a determination in which it agrees to the departure direction or variation applied for as provided under paragraph (1) it shall -
(3) Where the Department does not have the information required to make a decision under paragraph (1) it shall not revise or supersede the conversion decision.
Grounds on which a conversion decision may not be revised, superseded or altered on appeal
7.
A decision of the Department made under regulation 3 shall not be revised, superseded or altered on appeal on any of the following grounds -
Outstanding appeals at calculation date
8.
- (1) Where there is an appeal outstanding at the calculation date against a maintenance assessment, an interim maintenance assessment or an application for a departure direction under the former Order, the Department shall supersede the maintenance assessment in accordance with regulation 3 using the information held at that date.
(2) When the appeal is decided -
Transitional amount - basic, reduced and most flat rate cases
11.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 25, in cases to which regulation 10 applies the transitional amount is the former assessment amount decreased, where that amount is greater than the new amount, or increased, where the latter amount is the greater, by the phasing amount.
(2) Where regulation 10 applies and there is at the calculation date more than one maintenance assessment in relation to the non-resident parent -
Transitional amount in flat rate cases
12.
- (1) Except where the former assessment amount is nil, where the new amount would be the first prescribed amount but is nil owing to the application of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order the amount of child support maintenance payable for the year commencing on the case conversion date shall be a transitional amount equivalent to the second prescribed amount and thereafter shall be the new amount, nil.
(2) Except where the former assessment amount is nil, where the new amount would be the second prescribed amount but is nil owing to the application of paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order the amount of child support maintenance payable for the year commencing on the case conversion date shall be a transitional amount equivalent to half the second prescribed amount and thereafter shall be the new amount, nil.
(3) Where -
the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent from the case conversion date shall be the new amount, apportioned as provided in paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order and Regulations made under it, unless paragraph (4) or (5) applies.
(4) Subject to paragraph (6), where the former assessment amount is less than the new amount by an amount which is more than the second prescribed amount or, where paragraph 4(2) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order applies to the non-resident parent, half the second prescribed amount, the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent shall be as provided in paragraph (1) where paragraph 4(1)(b) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order applies, and as provided in paragraph (2) where paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule applies.
(5) Subject to paragraph (6), where the former assessment amount is greater than the new amount the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent shall be the new amount unless the new amount is less than the second prescribed amount or, where paragraph 4(2) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order applies to the non-resident parent, half the second prescribed amount, in which case the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent shall be as provided in paragraph (1) where paragraph 4(1)(b) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order applies, and as provided in paragraph (2) where paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule applies.
(6) Where paragraph (4) or (5) applies the transitional amount shall be apportioned among the persons with care as provided in paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order and Regulations made under that Part, and the amount of child support maintenance which the non-resident parent is liable to pay each person with care in respect of whom care of the qualifying child is shared shall be nil.
(7) In this regulation "former assessment amount" means, in relation to a non-resident parent in respect of whom there is in force on the calculation date more than one maintenance assessment, the aggregate of the amounts payable under those assessments, and in paragraph (5) includes the amount payable where Article 40 of the former Order[22] (contribution to maintenance) applies to the non-resident parent.
Transitional amount - certain flat rate cases
13.
Where paragraph 4(2) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order applies and the former assessment amount is nil, the amount of child support maintenance payable for the year beginning on the case conversion date shall be a transitional amount equivalent to half the second prescribed amount and thereafter shall not be a transitional amount but shall be the new amount.
Certain cases where the new amount is payable
14.
The amount of child support maintenance which the non-resident parent is liable to pay on and from the case conversion date is the new amount where -
Case conversion date
15.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the case conversion date is the beginning of the first maintenance period on or after the conversion date.
(2) Where, on or after the commencement date, there is a maintenance assessment in force and a maintenance calculation is made to which paragraph (3) applies, the case conversion date for the maintenance assessment shall be the beginning of the first maintenance period on or after the effective date of the related maintenance calculation.
(3) This paragraph applies where -
(4) In paragraph (3) -
Conversion calculation and conversion decision
16.
- (1) A conversion calculation by the Department shall be made -
(2) A conversion decision shall be treated for the purposes of any revision, supersession, appeal or application for a variation under Article 18, 19, 22 or 28G of the Order[23] and Regulations made in connection with such matters, as a decision under Article 13 of the Order made with effect from the date of notification of that decision and, where a conversion decision has been made, the case shall for those purposes be treated as if there were a maintenance calculation in force.
(3) A conversion calculation shall become a maintenance calculation when the transitional period ends or, if later, any relevant property transfer taken into account in the calculation ceases to have effect.
Relevant departure direction and relevant property transfer
17.
- (1) A relevant departure direction means a departure direction given in relation to the maintenance assessment which is the subject of the conversion decision where that direction was given under the provisions of the former Order and Regulations made under that Order and, where it is one to which one of the following paragraphs applies.
(2) This paragraph applies to a departure direction given on the special expenses grounds in head (b) (contact costs) or (d) (debts of the relationship) of paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 4B to the former Order[24] where and to the extent that they exceed the threshold amount which is -
and for this purpose "net weekly income" means the income which would otherwise be taken into account for the purposes of the conversion decision including any additional income which falls to be taken into account under regulation 20.
(3) This paragraph applies to a departure direction given on the ground in paragraph 2(3)(c) of Schedule 4B to the former Order (illness or disability costs) where the illness or disability is of a relevant other child.
(4) This paragraph applies to a departure direction given on the ground in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4B to the former Order (property or capital transfers).
(5) Subject to paragraph (6), this paragraph applies to a departure direction given on the additional cases grounds in paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4B to the former Order and regulation 24 of the Departure Regulations (diversion of income) or paragraph 5(2)(b) of Schedule 4B to the former Order and regulation 25 of the Departure Regulations (life-style inconsistent with declared income).
(6) Where the new amount, but for the application of a relevant departure direction referred to in paragraph (5), would be the first prescribed amount owing to the application of paragraph 4(1)(b) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order, or would be the nil rate under paragraph 5(a) of Part I of that Schedule, paragraph (5) applies where the amount of the additional net weekly income exceeds £100.
(7) This paragraph applies to a departure direction given on the ground in paragraph 5(2)(a) of Schedule 4B to the former Order (assets capable of producing income) where the value of the assets taken into account is greater than £65,000.
(8) A relevant property transfer is a transfer which was taken into account in the decision as to the maintenance assessment in respect of which the conversion decision is made owing to the application of Schedule 3A to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (amount to be allowed in respect of transfers of property)[25].
(9) Where -
the relevant departure direction shall for the purposes of any subsequent decision, including the subsequent decision in sub-paragraph (b), be a variation as if an application had been made under Article 28G of the Order for a variation in relation to the same ground and for the same amount.
Effect on conversion calculation - special expenses
18.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations 22 and 23, where the relevant departure direction is one falling within regulation 17(2) or (3) (special expenses), effect shall be given to the relevant departure direction in the conversion calculation by deducting from the net weekly income of the non-resident parent the weekly amount of that departure direction and for this purpose "net weekly income" has the meaning given in regulation 17(2).
(2) Where the income which, but for the application of this paragraph, would be taken into account in the conversion decision is the capped amount and the relevant departure direction is one falling within regulation 17(2) or (3) then -
Effect on conversion calculation - property or capital transfer
19.
Subject to regulation 23, where the relevant departure direction is one falling within regulation 17(4) -
Effect on conversion calculation - additional cases
20.
Subject to regulations 22 and 23, where the relevant departure direction is one falling within regulation 17(5) or (7) (additional cases), effect shall be given to the relevant departure direction in the conversion calculation by increasing the net weekly income of the non-resident parent which would otherwise be taken into account by the weekly amount of the additional income except that, where the amount of net weekly income calculated in this way would exceed the capped amount, the amount of net weekly income taken into account shall be the capped amount.
Effect on conversion calculation - relevant property transfer
21.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 23, a relevant property transfer shall be given effect by deducting from the net weekly income of the non-resident parent which would otherwise be taken into account, the amount in relation to the relevant property transfer and for this purpose "net weekly income" has the meaning given in regulation 17(2) but after deduction in respect of any relevant departure direction falling within regulation 17(2) or (3) (special expenses).
(2) Where the net weekly income of the non-resident parent which is taken into account for the purposes of the conversion calculation is the capped amount, a relevant property transfer shall be given effect by deducting the amount in respect of the transfer from the capped amount.
Effect on conversion calculation - maximum amount payable where relevant departure direction is on additional cases ground
22.
- (1) Subject to regulation 23, where this regulation applies the amount of child support maintenance which the non-resident parent shall be liable to pay shall be whichever is the lesser of -
(2) This regulation applies where the relevant departure direction is one to which regulation 17(5) or (7) (additional cases) applies and the non-resident parent's liability calculated as provided in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order, and Regulations made under that Schedule, would, but for the relevant departure direction be -
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) -
Effect of relevant departure direction on conversion calculation - general
23.
- (1) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), where more than one relevant departure direction applies, regulations 18 to 22 shall apply and the results shall be aggregated as appropriate.
(2) Paragraph 7(2) to (7) of Schedule 1 to the Order (shared care) shall apply where the rate of child support maintenance is affected by a relevant departure direction, other than one falling within regulation 17(3) (illness or disability costs) and paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule shall be read as if after "as calculated in accordance with the preceding paragraphs" there were inserted "and the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001".
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), where the non-resident parent shares the care of a qualifying child within the meaning in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order, or where the care of such a child is shared in part by an authority as defined in Article 2 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995[26], the amount of child support maintenance the non-resident parent is liable to pay the person with care, calculated to take account of any relevant departure direction, shall be reduced in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 7 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order, or regulation 9 of the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations, as the case may be.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where a relevant departure direction is one falling within regulation 17(4) (property or capital transfers) the amount of the relevant departure direction shall be deducted from the amount of child support maintenance the non-resident parent would otherwise be liable to pay the person with care in respect of whom the transfer was made after aggregation of the effects of any relevant departure directions as provided in paragraph (1) or deduction for shared care as provided in paragraph (3).
(5) If the application of regulation 19, or paragraph (3) or (4), would decrease the weekly amount of child support maintenance (or the aggregate of all such amounts) payable by the non-resident parent to the person with care (or all of them) to less than a figure equivalent to the first prescribed amount, the new amount shall instead be the first prescribed amount and shall be apportioned as provided in paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order and Regulations made under that Part.
Phasing amount
24.
- (1) In this Part "phasing amount" means, for the year beginning on the case conversion date, the relevant figure provided in paragraph (2), and for each subsequent year the phasing amount for the previous year aggregated with the relevant figure.
(2) The relevant figure is -
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the "relevant income" is the net weekly income of the non-resident parent taken into account in the conversion decision.
Maximum transitional amount
25.
- (1) Where a conversion decision is made in a circumstance to which regulation 15(2) applies (maintenance assessment and related maintenance calculation), or a subsequent decision is made, the liability of the non-resident parent to pay child support maintenance during the transitional period (excluding any amount payable in respect of arrears of child support maintenance and before reduction for any amount in respect of an overpayment) shall be whichever is the lesser of -
(2) Where -
that amount shall be apportioned as provided in paragraph (3).
(3) The apportionment referred to in paragraph (2) shall be carried out as follows -
(4) Where -
Subsequent decision effective on case conversion date
26.
- (1) Where there is a subsequent decision, the effective date of which is the case conversion date, the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be calculated as if the subsequent decision were a conversion decision.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), regulations 9 to 25 shall apply as if references -
(b) to the new amount were to the subsequent decision amount; and
(c) to the conversion decision in regulation 24(3) were to the subsequent decision.
Subsequent decision with effect in transitional period - amount payable
27.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (6), where during the transitional period there is a subsequent decision the effective date of which is after the case conversion date, the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be the subsequent decision amount unless any of the following paragraphs apply, in which case it shall be a transitional amount as provided for in those paragraphs.
(2) Where -
the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be a transitional amount calculated as the transitional amount payable immediately before the subsequent decision ("the previous transitional amount") increased by the difference between the new amount and the subsequent decision amount and the phasing amounts shall apply to that transitional amount as they would have applied to the previous transitional amount had there been no subsequent decision.
(3) Where -
the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be the previous transitional amount and the phasing amounts shall apply as they would have applied had there been no subsequent decision.
(4) Where -
the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be a transitional amount calculated as the previous transitional amount decreased by the difference between the new amount and the subsequent decision amount and the phasing amounts shall apply to that transitional amount as they would have applied to the previous transitional amount had there been no subsequent decision.
(5) Where -
the amount of child support maintenance payable shall be the previous transitional amount and the phasing amounts shall apply as they would have applied had there been no subsequent decision.
(6) Paragraphs (2) to (5) shall not apply where the subsequent decision amount is the first prescribed amount or the second prescribed amount or the nil rate.
Linking provisions
28.
- (1) Where after the commencement date but before the conversion date, an application for a maintenance calculation is made or treated as made and within the relevant period a maintenance assessment was in force in relation to the same qualifying child, non-resident parent and person with care -
(2) Where, after the conversion date, an application for a maintenance calculation is made or treated as made, and within the relevant period a maintenance assessment ("the previous assessment") had been in force in relation to the same qualifying child, non-resident parent and person with care but had ceased to have effect -
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) "the relevant period" means 13 weeks prior to the date that the application for the maintenance calculation is made or treated as made.
(4) This paragraph applies where -
(5) Where paragraph (4) applies the amount of child support maintenance the non-resident parent is liable to pay from the effective date of the second subsequent decision shall be a transitional amount or, where applicable, the new amount, calculated by making a subsequent decision and, where appropriate, applying a phasing amount, as if the first subsequent decision had not occurred.
(6) This paragraph applies where during the transitional period a conversion calculation ceases to have effect.
(7) Where paragraph (6) applies and no later than 13 weeks after the conversion calculation ceases to have effect an application for child support maintenance is made, or treated as made, in relation to the same person with care, non-resident parent and qualifying child, the amount of child support maintenance the non-resident parent is liable to pay from the effective date of the new maintenance calculation shall be a transitional amount or, where applicable, the new amount, calculated by making a subsequent decision in relation to the conversion calculation as if it had not ceased to have effect, and applying a phasing amount where appropriate.
(8) Where -
the subsequent decision amount shall be calculated by making a subsequent decision in relation to the previous assessment as if the assessment were in force, and applying a phasing amount, where appropriate.
whether as originally made or as revised under Article 18 of the Order or decided on appeal;
(2) In determining the old amount the Department shall disregard any payments in kind and any payments made to a third party on behalf of, or for the benefit of, the qualifying child or the person with care.
Cases to which this Part applies
30.
This Part applies to cases where -
(b) either -
(c) the calculation amount exceeds the old amount.
Amount payable during the transitional period
31.
- (1) In a case to which this Part applies, the amount of child support maintenance payable under a maintenance calculation during the transitional period shall, instead of being the calculation amount, be the transitional amount.
(2) The transitional amount is -
(3) If in any case the application of the provisions of this Part would result in an amount of child support maintenance becoming payable which is greater than the calculation amount, then those provisions shall not apply or, as the case may be, shall cease to apply to that case and the amount of child support maintenance payable in that case shall be the calculation amount.
Revision and supersession
32.
- (1) Where the Department makes a subsequent decision in relation to a maintenance calculation to which regulation 31(1) applies, the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent shall be -
(2) Regulation 31(2) shall apply to cases where there has been a subsequent decision as if references to the transitional amount were to the amount resulting from the application of paragraph (1).
on the ground that regulation 15(2) did not apply.
(2) The provisions of the former Order and Regulations made under that Order prior to any amendments or revocations made pursuant to or in consequence of the Act shall apply, until the effective date of a further conversion decision in relation to the maintenance assessment, for the purposes of that maintenance assessment as if the decision referred to in paragraph (1)(a) had not been made, subject to any revision, supersession or appeal having effect between the dates of the decisions in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) which would have affected the maintenance assessment during that period but for the decision referred to in paragraph (1)(a).
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on
23rd January 2001.
L.S.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
[2] See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481back
[4] Part I was substituted by section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Child Suppport, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000back
[5] Paragraph (10) was inserted by Article 12(1) of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2702 (N.I. 13)) and sub-paragraph (a) was amended by section 2(2) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000back
[6] S.R. 1999 No. 162; relevant amending rules are S.R. 1999 Nos. 242, 267, 271 (C. 22), 272, 408, 472 (C. 36) and 473 and S.R. 2000 Nos. 3, 215, 365 and S.R. 2001 No. 23back
[7] The definition of "departure direction" was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995back
[8] S.R. 1996 No. 541; relevant amending rules are S.R. 1998 No. 8, S.R. 1999 Nos. 167, 385 and 246 (C. 20) and S.R. 2000 No. 215back
[9] S.R. 1992 No. 466; relevant amending rules are S.R. 1993 No. 164, S.R. 1995 Nos. 19, 162 and 475, S.R. 1998 No. 8 and S.R. 1999 No. 246 (C. 20)back
[11] S.R. 1992 No. 340; relevant amending rules are S.R. 1993 No. 164, S.R. 1994 Nos. 37 and 65, S.R. 1995 Nos. 19, 162 and 475, S.R. 1996 Nos. 289, 317, 358, 503, 541 and 590, S.R. 1998 No. 8 and S.R. 1999 Nos. 152, 167, 385 and 246 (C. 20)back
[12] S.R. 1992 No. 341; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 162back
[14] Regulation 32 was amended by regulation 3(22) of S.R. 1995 No. 475, regulation 3(5) of S.R. 1996 No. 317 and regulation 2(17) of S.R. 1999 No. 167back
[16] Regulation 29 was amended by regulation 4(5) of S.R. 1995 No. 19, regulation 8(10) of S.R. 1995 No. 162, regulation 3(18) of S.R. 1995 No. 475 and regulation 2(13) of S.R. 1999 No. 167back
[17] Regulation 3(7) was inserted by regulation 7(4)(b) of S.R. 1995 No. 162 and amended by regulation 7(2) of S.R. 1995 No. 475back
[18] Articles 13 was amended by Article 13 of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2702 (N.I. 13)) and paragraph 11 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. Article 14 was amended by Article 5 of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and paragraph 12 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. Article 22 was substituted by Article 42 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998back
[19] Regulation 15C is inserted by regulation 2(9) of S.R. 2001 No. 23back
[20] Regulation 8(3) was substituted by regulation 3(3) of S.R. 1995 No. 475 and amended by regulation 2(4) of S.R. 1999 No. 167 and Article 8(2) of S.R. 1999 No. 246 (C. 20)back
[21] Part I was substituted by section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000back
[22] Article 40 was amended by paragraph 25 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998back
[23] Articles 18, 19 and 22 were substituted by Articles 40 to 42 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, Articles 18 and 19 are amended by sections 8 and 9 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and Article 22 is further substituted by section 10 of that Act. Article 28G is inserted by section 7 of that Actback
[24] Schedule 4B was inserted by Schedule 2 to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995back
[25] Schedule 3A was inserted by regulation 9(17) of S.R. 1995 No. 162 and amended by S.R. 1995 No. 475 and S.R. 1999 Nos. 152 and 246 (C. 20)back
[26] S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)back
[27] Part I was substituted by section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000back
[28] Paragraph (10) was inserted by Article 12(1) of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and sub-paragraph (a) was amended by section 2(2) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland 2000back
[29] 1955 c. 18; section 151 was amended by section 18 of the Armed Forces Act 1976 (c. 52), section 11 of the Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55), section 108(4) of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), section 14 of the Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62) and S.I. 1993/785 and 1995/756back
[30] 1955 c. 19; section 151 was amended by section 18 of the Armed Forces Act 1976 (c. 52), section 11 of the Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55), section 108(4) of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), section 14 of the Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62) and S.I. 1993/785 and 1995/756back
[31] This Order in Council is not a statutory instrument but copies may be obtained from the Ministry of Defence Naval Pay (Pensions and Conditions of Service) Branch, Old Admiralty Building, Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BEback
[32] Regulation 3A was inserted by regulation 2(4) of S.R. 2001 No. 23back