PART 2CHILD SUPPORT ETC.

Miscellaneous

35Liable relative provisions: exclusion of parental duty to maintain

1

In section 100 of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8) (failure to maintain), for subsection (3) substitute—

3

Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of this Part, a person shall be liable to maintain another person if that other person is—

a

his or her spouse or civil partner, or

b

a person whom he or she would be liable to maintain if section 74(6)(c) and (8) had effect for the purposes of this Part.

2

In that section, in subsection (4), for the words from “a person” to the end, substitute “ subsection (3)(b) shall not apply ”.