The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 6 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations

16.—(1) The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For regulation 11 (reviews consequent on amendments made by these Regulations) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Supersessions consequent on amendments made by these Regulations

11.— (1) Where a fresh assessment is made by virtue of a decision under Article 19 of the Order superseding an earlier decision in consequence of the coming into operation of regulation 4(10)—

(a) the decision under Article 19; and

(b) that fresh maintenance assessment,

shall take effect from the first day of the maintenance period following 18th December 1995.

(2) In this regulation and regulation 12 “the Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.”.

(3) In regulation 12 (transitional and consequential provisions)—

(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(1) A decision with respect to a maintenance assessment shall not be superseded by a decision under Article 19 of the Order solely to give effect to the provisions set out in paragraph (2).”;

(b) in paragraph (3) for “Where a review” there shall be substituted “Where a decision is made under Article 19 of the Order superseding an earlier decision” and for “that review” there shall be substituted “that decision”; and

(c) paragraph (4) shall be omitted.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No. 475