These Regulations further amend the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the Information Regulations”), which provide for information or evidence to be furnished in connection with the determination of any application under the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (“the Order”). The amendments made by these Regulations apply to cases in respect of which section 12 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 has not come into operation.

Regulation 2 amends regulations 2 and 3 of the Information Regulations to enable information or evidence to be required for the purposes of verifying, in such cases as the Department for Social Development may determine, such information or evidence that it holds, or has held, as it may determine.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this rule as it has no impact on the costs of business.