PART VMISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the Child Support (Arrears, Interest and Adjustment of Maintenance Assessments) Regulations

27.—(1) The Child Support (Arrears, Interest and Adjustment of Maintenance Assessments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), after the definition of “relevant person” there shall be added the following definition –

“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(2)..

(3) In regulation 10A(1)(a)(3) (reimbursement of a repayment of overpaid child maintenance) and regulation 10B(4) (repayment of a reimbursement of a voluntary payment), after “income support” there shall be inserted “, state pension credit”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 342; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 475, S.R. 1996 No. 289 and S.R. 2001 No. 15

(3)

Regulation 10A was inserted by regulation 5(3) of S.R. 1995 No. 475 and amended by regulation 22 of S.R. 1996 No. 289 and regulation 2(11) of S.R. 2001 No. 15

(4)

Regulation 10B was inserted by regulation 2(12) of S.R. 2001 No. 15