Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland)

28.  In Schedule 1 (maintenance assessments)—

(a) paragraph 13 (assessments where amount of child support is nil) shall cease to have effect;

(b) in paragraph 14 (consolidated applications and assessments), the existing text shall be sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph, and after that sub-paragraph there shall be added—

“(2) In sub-paragraph (1), the references (however expressed) to applications for maintenance calculations include references to applications treated as made.”; and

(c) in paragraph 16 (termination of assessments)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1), heads (d) and (e) shall cease to have effect;

(ii) sub-paragraphs (2) to (10) shall cease to have effect; and

(iii) in sub-paragraph (11), the words “, or should be cancelled” shall cease to have effect.