The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Amendment of the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations

5.—(1) The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 11A(b)(2) (meaning of “current assessment” for the purposes of the Order) for “reviewed under Article 18,” there shall be substituted “, in the case of a maintenance assessment the effective date of which is on or before 8th December 1996, reviewed by a child support officer under Article 18 of the order, or, in the case of any assessment, revised by the Department under Article 18 of the Order after 6th December 1998, or reviewed under Article”.

(3) In regulations 33(1) (cancellation of a departure direction following a review under Article 18, 19, 20 or 21 of the order or on a change of circumstances) and 41(6) (child support maintenance payable were effect of a departure direction would be to decrease an absent parent’s assessable income) for “Article 18,” there shall be substituted “Article 18 of the Order by a child support officer of a maintenance assessment the effective date of which is on or before 8th December 1996 or a revision by the Department under that Article after 6th December 1998, or a review under Article”.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 541; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 8

(2)

Regulation 11A was inserted by regulation 9(5) of S.R. 1998 No. 8