Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations
3.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—
(a)after the definition of “patient” insert—
““pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2);”;
(b)after the definition of “profit-related pay”(3) insert—
““qualifying age for state pension credit” means—
in the case of a woman, pensionable age; or
in the case of a man, the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man;”.
(3) In regulation 9(1)(d) (exempt income: calculation or estimation of E), for “aged less than 60” substitute “who had not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit”.
(4) In regulation 18(2)(a)(iii) (excessive housing costs), for “were aged less than 60” substitute “had not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit”.
(5) In Schedule 2 (amounts to be disregarded when calculating or estimating N and M), after paragraph 15 insert—
“15A. A payment made by the Department for Employment and Learning under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(4) by way of Return to Work Credit.”.
S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22). Paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 c. 14 (N.I.), paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 c. 2 (N.I.) and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 c. 1 (N.I.)
The definition of “profit-related pay” was inserted by regulation 3(2)(a)(vii) of S.R. 1996 No. 590
1950 c. 29 (N.I.). Section 1 is amended by Article 3 of the Employment and Training (Amendment)(Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1087 (N.I. 10)) and Article 5 of the Industrial Training (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1200 (N.I. 8))