The Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) Regulations 1992 so as to:—

(a) provide that the Secretary of State shall be included as a party to certain proceedings (regulation 2);

(b) provide that in a notice of an application for leave to appeal to a Commissioner, the shorter form of wording “appeal tribunal” shall be used instead of the words “tribunal at the Central Office of Child Support Appeal Tribunals” (regulation 3);

(c) provide that, where an application for leave to appeal is made by a child support officer or by the Secretary of State under section 24(1A) of the Child Support Act 1991, the child support officer or the Secretary of State, as the case may be, shall send a copy of the application to each person specified in regulation 3(4) of the 1992 Regulations (regulation 4);

(d) provide that, except where the Secretary of State is already a party to the proceedings, he may at any time apply to a Commissioner for leave to intervene in an appeal pending before a Commissioner (regulation 5); and

(e) provide that information which has been provided for the purposes of any proceedings to which the 1992 Regulations apply may be disclosed, unless within 21 days the person to which that information relates gives written notification that he does not consent to such disclosure (regulation 6).