The Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations

4.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In Schedule 1 (calculation of N and M) in paragraph 1(1)(2) after head (g) there shall be inserted the following head –

“(gg) any statutory paternity pay under Part XIIZA of the Contributions and Benefits Act or any statutory adoption pay under Part XIIZB of that Act(3);”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (amounts to be disregarded when calculating or estimating N and M) in paragraph 35 the words “by virtue of regulations made” and “, or by virtue of the provisions of Article 55” shall be omitted.

(4) In Schedule 3B(4) (amount to be allowed in respect of travelling costs) –

(a) in paragraph 1 for the definition of “straight-line distance” there shall be substituted the following definition –

““straight-line distance” means the straight-line distance measured in kilometres and calculated to 2 decimal places, and, where that distance is not a whole number of kilometres, rounded to the nearest whole number of kilometres, a distance which exceeds a whole number of kilometres by 0.50 of a kilometre being rounded up;”;

(b) in paragraphs 7, 14 and 20 –

(i) for “150”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted “240”, and

(ii) for “10 pence” there shall be substituted “6 pence”; and

(c) in paragraph 8(1) and (2)(5) for “13” there shall be substituted “14”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 341; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 Nos. 162 and 475, S.R. 1996 Nos. 317 and 590 and S.R. 1999 No. 246 (C. 20); S.R. 1992 No. 341 is revoked, with savings, by regulation 15 of S.R. 2001 No. 18

(2)

Paragraph 1(1) was amended by regulation 9(14)(a) of S.R. 1995 No. 162, regulation 4(8)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 317 and regulation 3(7)(a)(i) of S.R. 1996 No. 590

(3)

Parts XIIZA and XIIZB were inserted by, respectively, Articles 5 and 6 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))

(4)

Schedule 3B was inserted by Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 162 and amended by regulation 4 (11) of S.R. 1995 No. 475 and Article 9(12) of S.R. 1999 No. 246 (C. 20)

(5)

Paragraph 8(2) was amended by Article 9(12)(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 246 (C. 20)