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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3AMENDMENT OF STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT

The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (NI 23)

28.  In Schedule 1 (maintenance assessments)—

(a)paragraph 13 (assessments where amount of child support is nil) shall cease to have effect;

(b)in paragraph 14 (consolidated applications and assessments), the existing text shall be sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph, and after that sub-paragraph there shall be added—

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), the references (however expressed) to applications for maintenance calculations include references to applications treated as made.; and

(c)in paragraph 16 (termination of assessments)—

(i)in sub-paragraph (1), heads (d) and (e) shall cease to have effect;

(ii)sub-paragraphs (2) to (10) shall cease to have effect; and

(iii)in sub-paragraph (11), the words “, or should be cancelled” shall cease to have effect.