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This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to those of the provisions of the Child Support Act 1991, other than provisions which relate to the appointment of Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland. The Order makes provision for Northern Ireland with regard to the assessment, collection and enforcement of periodical maintenance payable by certain parents with respe0ct to children of theirs who are not in their care.
The Order—
(a)makes provision with respect to the duty of each parent to maintain a qualifying child within the meaning of the Order;
(b)introduces a new method of assessing child support maintenance by a non-discretionary formula; and
(c)empowers the Department of Health and Social Services to trace absent parents, to assess child support maintenance and to collect and enforce child support maintenance and certain other kinds of maintenance.
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