PART 10INCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER 8Liable relatives

Disregard of payments treated as not relevant income

121.  Where the Department treats any payment as not being relevant income for the purposes of section 72A of the Administration Act(1) (payment of benefit where maintenance payments collected by Department), that payment is to be disregarded in calculating a claimant’s income.

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Section 72A was inserted by Article 18 of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2702 (N.I. 13)) and amended by paragraph 112 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) and paragraph 4(9) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.))