The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Person with part-time care who is not a non-resident parent

14.—(1) Where the circumstances of a case are that—

(a) two or more persons who do not live in the same household each provide day to day care for the same qualifying child; and

(b) those persons do not include any parent who is treated as a non-resident parent of that child by regulation 8(2),

that case shall be treated as a special case for the purposes of the Order.

(2) For the purposes of this case—

(a) the person whose application for a maintenance calculation is being proceeded with shall, subject to sub-paragraph (b), be entitled to receive all of the child support maintenance payable under the Order in respect of the child in question;

(b) on request being made to the Department by—

(i) that person, or

(ii) any other person who is providing day to day care for that child and who intends to continue to provide that care,

the Department may make arrangements for the payment of any child support maintenance payable under the Order to the persons who provide such care in the same ratio as that in which it appears to the Department that each is to provide such care for the child in question;

(c) before making an arrangement under sub-paragraph (b), the Department shall consider all of the circumstances of the case and in particular the interests of the child, the present arrangements for the day to day care of the child in question and any representations or proposals made by the persons who provide such care for that child.