The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Amendment of regulations 3 and 3A of the Information Regulations

6.—(1) In regulation 3(1) of the Information Regulations—

(a) in sub-paragraph (aa) after “maintenance order” there shall be inserted mdash;

• “made on or after the date prescribed for the purposes of section 4(10)(a) of the Act(1) which has been in force for at least a year from the date it was made”; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (k) there shall be inserted—

“(l) a determination as to who is in receipt of child benefit, payable under Part IX of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2), either for a child who may be a relevant other child for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Act, or for the qualifying child where a parent may fall to be treated as a non-resident parent under the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations.”.

(2) In regulation 3(2) of the Information Regulations—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (e) for the words from “an application” to “made” and in sub-paragraph (b) for the words from “the application” to “made” there shall be substituted the words “the maintenance calculation has been applied for, or has been treated as applied for”;

(b) the following words shall be omitted—

(i) in sub-paragraph (g) “or a parent with care”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (h) “or parent with care”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (i) “and a parent with care”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (l) “or living in the same household as the parent with care” and “or the parent with care, as the case may be”;

(v) in sub-paragraph (q) “or the person with care”; and

(vi) in sub-paragraph (r)(i) “or should be cancelled”; and

(c) sub-paragraphs (j), (m), (n), (o), (p) and (s) shall be omitted.

(3) At the end of regulation 3A of the Information Regulations there shall be inserted “including details of the offences provided for in section 14A of the Act(3) for failing to provide, or providing false, information.”.

(1)

Section 4(10) was amended by section 2 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.

(2)

1992 c. 4.

(3)

Section 14A is inserted into the Act by section 13 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.