The Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) (Modification and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Regulations made by the Department for Social Development and laid before the Assembly under section 26(11) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 for approval of the Assembly before the expiration of 6 months from the date of their coming into operation.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 247

FAMILY LAW

CHILD SUPPORT

The Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) (Modification and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

19th July 2002

Coming into operation

20th July 2002

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 26(1) and (9) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000(1) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) (Modification and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 20th July 2002.

Modification of section 26(5) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act

2.  Section 26 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (temporary compensation payment scheme) shall have effect as if in subsection (5) for “2002” there were substituted “2005” and for “2003” there were substituted “2006”.

Amendment of the Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) Regulations

3.  In regulation 3 of the Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(2) (prescribed date) for “2002” there shall be substituted “2005”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 19th July 2002.

L.S.

John O'Neill

Senior Officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations provide for modifications and amendments in relation to the temporary compensation payment scheme (“the scheme”) under section 26 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (“the Act”). The scheme makes provision for certain cases where there has been a delay in the making of a maintenance assessment under the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23)) leading to arrears of child support maintenance.

Regulation 1 makes provision for citation and commencement.

Regulation 2 modifies section 26 of the Act so that it has effect as if later dates were substituted in subsection (5) of that section, being the dates before which an agreement must be entered into and expire.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 3 of the Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 by substituting a later prescribed date for the purposes of section 26(1)(a) of the Act, being the date before which a maintenance assessment must be made for the scheme to apply.

These Regulations do not impose costs on business.

(1)

2000 c. 4 (N.I.)

(2)

S.R. 2001 No. 12