This Order may be cited as the Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012.

Subject to paragraph (3), this Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Paragraph 109(f) of the Schedule comes into force on the day after that on which the other provisions of this Order come into force.

In this Order—

• “the 1991 Act” means the Child Support Act 19912;

• “the 2008 Act” means the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 20083;

• “the Commission” means the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission established by section 1 of the 2008 Act;

• “the commencement date” means the date on which this Order (other than paragraph 109(f) of the Schedule) comes into force.