The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Amendment of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations

2.—(1) The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 3(2)(p) (purposes for which information or evidence may be required) for “assessable or disposable income” there shall be substituted “any application made under the Order or any question arising in connection with such an application”.

(3) In regulation 8(2) (disclosure of information to a court or tribunal)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “or to the benefits Acts” there shall be substituted “, to the benefits Acts or to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(3) The Department or a child support officer may disclose information held by them for the purposes of the Order to a court in any case where—

(a) that court has exercised any power it has to make, vary or revive a maintenance order or to vary a maintenance agreement; and

(b) such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before that court in relation to that maintenance order or that maintenance agreement or for the purposes of any matters arising out of those proceedings.”.

(4) In regulation 9A(2)(c)(ii)(4) (disclosure of information to other persons) for “with that application on behalf of that person” there shall be substituted “on behalf of that person with any matters arising in connection with the determination of that application”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 339; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 162 and S.R. 1996 No. 541

(2)

Regulation 8 was amended by regulation 49(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 541

(3)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)

(4)

Regulation 9A was inserted by regulation 6(4) of S.R. 1995 No 162 and amended by regulation 49(3) of S.R. 1996 No. 541