The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

1. Introductory Text

2. Part I General

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

   2. 2. Documents

3. Part II Applications for a Maintenance Calculation

   1. 3. Applications under Article 7 of the Order

   2. 4. Multiple applications

   3. 5. Notice of an application for a maintenance calculation

   4. 6. Death of a qualifying child

4. Part III Default Maintenance Decisions

   1. 7. Default rate

5. Part IV Reduced Benefit Decisions

   1. 8. Interpretation of Part IV

   2. 9. Period within which reasons are to be given

   3. 9A. Period for parent to state if request still stands

   4. 10. Circumstances in which a reduced benefit decision shall not be given

   5. 11. Amount of and period of reduction of relevant benefit under a reduced benefit decision

   6. 12. Modification of reduction under a reduced benefit decision to preserve minimum entitlement to relevant benefit

   7. 13. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision when relevant benefit ceases to be payable

   8. 14. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision ... (income support)

   9. 15. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision ... (income-based jobseeker’s allowance)

   10. 16. Termination of a reduced benefit decision

   11. 17. Reduced benefit decisions where there is an additional qualifying child

   12. 18. Suspension and termination of a reduced benefit decision where the sole qualifying child ceases to be a child or where the parent concerned ceases to be a person with care

   13. 19. Notice of termination of a reduced benefit decision

   14. 20. Rounding provisions

6. Part V Miscellaneous Provisions

   1. 21. Persons who are not persons with care

   2. 22. Authorisation of representative

7. Part VI Notifications Following Certain Decisions

   1. 23. Notification of a maintenance calculation

8. Part VII Effective Dates of Maintenance Calculations

   1. 24. Effective dates of maintenance calculations

   2. 25. Effective dates of maintenance calculations — maintenance order and application under Article 7

   3. 26. Effective dates of maintenance calculations — maintenance order and application under Article 9

   4. 27. Effective dates of maintenance calculations — maintenance order ceases

   5. 28. Effective dates of maintenance calculations in specified cases

   6. 28A. Interim effective date where regulation 24, 27 or 28 applies

   7. 28B. Effective date where there has been a previous maintenance calculation

9. Part VIII Revocation, Savings and Transitional Provisions

   1. 29. Revocation and savings

   2. 30. Transitional provision — effective dates ...

10. Signature

11. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       Meaning of “child” for the purposes of the Order

       1. 1. Conditions prescribed for the purposes of Article 3(1)

       2. 1A. Period for which a person is to be treated as continuing to fall within Article 3(1) of the Order

       3. 2. Meaning of “advanced education” for the purposes of this Schedule

       4. 3. Circumstances in which education is to be treated as full-time education

       5. 4. Interruption of full-time education

       6. 5. Circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to be treated as continuing to fall within Article 3(1) of the Order

       7. 6. Interpretation

       8. 7. Education otherwise than at a recognised educational establishment

       9. 8. Person in respect of whom child benefit is payable

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Multiple applications

       1. 1. No maintenance calculation in force: more than one application for a maintenance calculation by the same person ...

       2. 2. No maintenance calculation in force: applications by different persons for a maintenance calculation

       3. 3. Maintenance calculation in force: subsequent application with respect to the same persons

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

       1. 1. No maintenance assessment or calculation in force: more than one application for maintenance by the same person under Article 7 ... of the former Order and of the Order

       2. 2. No maintenance assessment or calculation in force: applications by different persons for maintenance

       3. 3. Maintenance assessment in force: subsequent application with respect to the same persons

       4. 4. Interpretation

12. Explanatory Note