Welfare Reform Act 2007

Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)

7 (1) The Child Support Act 1991 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 6 as amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19) (applications by those claiming or receiving benefit), in subsection (1), after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert “, an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(3) In that section as it has effect apart from the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (applications by those receiving benefit), in subsection (1), after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert “, an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(4) In section 46 as amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (reduced benefit decisions), in subsection (10)(c) (definition of “relevant benefit”), for “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” substitute “, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(5) In that section as it has effect apart from the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (failure to comply with obligations imposed by section 6), in subsection (11), in the definition of “relevant benefit”, after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert “, an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(6) In section 47(3)(b) (persons to be exempted from payment of fees), after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance,” insert “an income-related employment and support allowance,”.

(7) In section 54 (interpretation), after the definition of “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert—

““income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance);”.

(8) In Part 1 of Schedule 1 as it has effect apart from the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (calculation of child support maintenance), in paragraph 5(4) (parents who are to be taken to have no assessable calculable income), after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert “, an income-related employment and support allowance”.