Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland)

Variations: revision and supersession

7.  For Article 28G of the Child Support Order (effect and duration of departure directions) there shall be substituted—

Variations: revision and supersession

28G.(1) An application for a variation may also be made when a maintenance calculation is in force.

(2) The Department may by regulations provide for—

(a)Articles 18, 19 and 22; and

(b)Articles 28A to 28F and Schedules 4A and 4B,

to apply with prescribed modifications in relation to such applications.

(3) The Department may by regulations provide that, in prescribed cases (or except in prescribed cases), a decision under Article 19 made otherwise than pursuant to an application for a variation may be made on the basis of a variation agreed to for the purposes of an earlier decision without a new application for a variation having to be made.