The Child Support Act 1991 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1431 (C.48)

FAMILY LAW

CHILD SUPPORT

The Child Support Act 1991 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992

Made

17th June 1992

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 58(2) of the Child Support Act 1991(1), hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Child Support Act 1991 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992.

Date appointed for the coming into force of certain provisions of the Child Support Act 1991

2.  The date appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Child Support Act 1991 specified in the Schedule to this Order is 17th June 1992.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Alistair Burt

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

17th June 1992

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Provision of the Child Support Act 1991	Subject Matter
Section 3(3)(c)	Meaning of certain terms used in the Act.
Section 4(4), (7) and (8)	Child support maintenance.
Section 5(3)	Child support maintenance: supplemental provisions.
Section 6(1) (in so far as it confers power to prescribe kinds of benefit for the purposes of that subsection), (9), (10) and (13)	Applications by those receiving benefit.
Section 7(5), (8) and (9)	Right of child in Scotland to apply for assessment.
Section 8(5), (9) and (11)(f)	Role of the courts with respect to maintenance for children.
Section 10	Relationship between maintenance assessments and certain court orders and related matters.
Section 12(2), (3) and (5)	Interim maintenance assessments.
Section 14(1) and (3)	Information required by Secretary of State.
Section 16(1), (2), (5) and (6)	Periodical reviews.
Section 17(4) and (6)(b)	Reviews on change of circumstances.
Section 18(8) and (11)	Reviews of decisions of child support officers.
Section 21(2) and (3)	Child support appeal tribunals.
Section 22(3) and (4)	Child Support Commissioners.
Section 24(6) and (7)	Appeal to Child Support Commissioner.
Section 25(2)(a), (3)(c), (5) and (6)	Appeal from Child Support Commissioner on question of law.
Section 29(2) and (3)	Collection of child support maintenance.
Section 30(1), (4) and (5)	Collection and enforcement of other forms of maintenance.
Section 31(8)	Deduction from earnings orders.
Section 32(1) to (5) and (7) to (9)	Regulations about deduction from earnings orders.
Section 34(1)	Regulations about liability orders.
Section 35(2)(b), (7) and (8)	Enforcement of liability orders by distress.
Section 39	Liability orders: enforcement throughout United Kingdom.
Section 40(4)(a)(ii), (8) and (11)	Commitment to prison.
Section 41(2), (3) and (4)	Arrears of child support maintenance.
Section 42	Special cases.
Section 43(1)(b) and (2)(a)	Contribution to maintenance by deduction from benefit.
Section 44(3)	Jurisdiction.
Section 45	Jurisdiction of courts in certain proceedings under the Act.
Section 46(11)	Failure to comply with obligations imposed by section 6.
Section 47	Fees.
Section 49	Right of audience: Scotland.
Section 50(5) and (7)(d)	Unauthorised disclosure of information.
Section 51	Supplementary powers to make regulations.
Section 52	Regulations and orders.
Section 54	Interpretation.
Section 55	Meaning of “child”.
Section 56(2), (3) and (4)	Corresponding provision for and co-ordination with Northern Ireland.
Section 57	Application to Crown.
Schedule 1 in the respects specified below and section 11, so far as it relates to them— paragraphs 1(3) and (5), 2(1), 4(1) and (3), 5(1), (2) and (4), 6(2) to (6), 7 to 9, 11, 14 and 16(5), (10) and (11)	Maintenance assessments.
Paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 2 and section 14(4) so far as it relates to that sub-paragraph	Provision of information to Secretary of State.
Paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3 and section 21(4) so far as it relates to that sub-paragraph	Child Support Appeal Tribunals.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 17th June 1992 those provisions of the Child Support Act 1991 specified in the Schedule to the Order.

(1)

1991 c. 48.