Child Support Act 1995
Application for a departure direction
1 Applications for departure directions.
2 Preliminary consideration.
3 Imposition of a regular payments condition.
4 Determination of applications.
5 Matters to be taken into account.
6 Departure directions.
7 Effect and duration.
8 Appeals.
9 Transitional provisions.
The child maintenance bonus
10 The child maintenance bonus.
Reviews of maintenance assessments etc.
11 Reviews: interim maintenance assessments.
12 Reviews on change of circumstances.
13 Continuation of reviews under section 18 of 1991 Act.
14 Cancellation of maintenance assessments on review.
15 Reviews at instigation of child support officers.
Appeals
16 Lapse of appeals to child support appeal tribunals.
17 Determination of questions other than by Child Support Commissioners.
Miscellaneous
18 Deferral of right to apply for maintenance assessment.
19 Non-referral of applications for maintenance assessments.
20 Disputed parentage.
21 Fees for scientific tests.
22 Arrears of child support maintenance: alternative to interest payments.
23 Repayment of overpaid child support maintenance.
24 Compensation payments.
25 Payment of benefit where maintenance payments collected by Secretary of State.
Supplemental
26 Regulations and orders.
27 Interpretation.
28 Financial provisions.
29 Provision for Northern Ireland.
30 Short title, commencement, extent etc.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Departure Directions
The following Schedule is inserted in the 1991 Act, after...
SCHEDULE 2 Departure Directions: The Cases and Controls
The following Schedule is inserted in the 1991 Act, after...
SCHEDULE 3 Minor and Consequential Amendments
Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1)
1In section 617(2) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act...
Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
2The 1991 Act is amended as follows.
3(1) In section 14 (information required by Secretary of State),...
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7(1) Section 24 (appeal to Child Support Commissioner) is amended...
8(1) In section 25 (appeal from Child Support Commissioner on...
9In section 30 (collection and enforcement of maintenance payments other...
10In section 33 (liability orders), at the end add—
11In section 41 (retention by Secretary of State of arrears...
12In section 46(5) (circumstances in which child support officer may...
13In section 47 (fees), in subsections (1) and (2) in...
14In section 48(1) (power of Secretary of State to confer...
15In section 52(2) (statutory instruments subject to affirmative resolution control)—...
16In section 54 (interpretation), insert the following definitions in the...
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18(1) In Schedule 4 (Child Support Commissioners), after paragraph 2...
19(1) In paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5 (amendment of the...
Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
20In section 170(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992...

Child Support Act 1995

1995 c. 34

An Act to make provision with respect to child support maintenance and other maintenance; and to provide for a child maintenance bonus.

C1C2I1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by any with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s.30.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Power to amend Act conferred (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, ss. 87(6)(k), (with s. 95); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch.