The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000.

(2) In these Regulations—

(a) “the Information Regulations” means the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations 1992(1);

(b) “the Jurisdiction Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) Regulations 1992(2); and

(c) “the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991.

(3) These Regulations shall come into force as follows—

(a) regulations 5(2)(b), (d) and (e), 6(3) and 7(1) and, for the purposes of those provisions, this regulation, shall come into force in relation to a particular case on the day on which section 13 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 comes into force for the purposes of that type of case;

(b) regulation 8(3) and, for the purposes of that provision, this regulation, shall come into force in relation to a particular case on the day on which section 22(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 comes into force for the purposes of that type of case;

(c) regulation 4 and, for the purposes of that provision, this regulation, shall come into force on 1st April 2001(3); and

(d) the remainder of these Regulations shall come into force in relation to a particular case on the day on which sub-paragraphs (19) and (20) of paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, which respectively amend sections 51 and 54 of the Act, come into force for the purposes of that type of case.

(1)

S.I. 1992/1812. Amending instruments are S.I. 1995/123, 1995/1045, 1995/3261, 1996/1945, 1996/2907, 1998/58, 1999/977 and 1999/1510.

(2)

S.I. 1992/2645. Amending instruments are S.I. 1993/913, 1995/123, 1995/1045, 1995/3261 and 1999/1510.

(3)

This is the day on which section 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to the chief executives) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) comes into force.