The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Transitional amount—basic, reduced and most flat rate cases

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 25, in cases to which regulation 10 applies the transitional amount is the former assessment amount decreased, where that amount is greater than the new amount, or increased, where the latter amount is the greater, by the phasing amount.

(2) Where regulation 10 applies and there is at the calculation date more than one maintenance assessment in relation to the non-resident parent—

(a) the amount of child support maintenance payable from the case conversion date to each person with care shall be determined by apportioning the new amount as provided in paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order(1) and Regulations made under that Part; and

(b) regulation 10 and paragraph (1) shall apply as if the references to the new amount were to the amount payable in respect of the person with care and the references to the former assessment amount were to that amount in respect of that person with care.

(1)

Part I was substituted by section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000