The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations 1992

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act ” means the Child Support Act 1991;

“appropriate authority ” means—

(a)

in relation to housing benefit, the housing or local authority concerned; and

(b)

in relation to council tax benefit, the billing authority or, in Scotland, the levying authority;

“local authority ” means, in relation to England and Wales, the council of a county, a metropolitan district, a London Borough or the Common Council of the City of London and, in relation to Scotland, a regional council or an islands council;

“Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations ” means the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992(1);

“Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations ” means the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992(2);

“parent with care ” means a person who, in respect of the same child or children, is both a parent and a person with care;

“related proceedings ” means proceedings in which a relevant court order was or is being sought;

“relevant court order ” means—

(a)

an order as to periodical or capital provision or as to variation of property rights made under an enactment specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 8(11) of the Act or prescribed under section 8(11)(f) of the Act in relation to a qualifying child or a relevant person; or

(b)

an order under Part II of the Children Act 1989(3) (Orders With Respect To Children In Family Proceedings) in relation to a qualifying child or, in Scotland, an order under section 3 of the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland)Act 1986(4) or a decree of declarator under section 7 of that Act in relation to a qualifying child;

“relevant person ” means—

(a)

a person with care;

(b)

an absent parent;

(c)

a parent who is treated as an absent parent under regulation 20 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations;

(d)

where the application for an assessment is made by a child under section 7 of the Act, that child,

in respect of whom a maintenance assessment has been applied for or is or has been in force.

(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—

(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;

(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number;

(c) in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.

(1)

S.I. 1992/1815.

(2)

S.I. 1992/1813.

(3)

1989 c. 41.

(4)

1986 c. 9.