The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 No. 2007

SCHEDULE Consequential, supplementary and incidental amendments

PART 1 Amendments to Acts

The Child Support Act 1991

4.  In section 7 (right of child in Scotland to apply for calculation)(1)—

(a) in subsections (1) and (2), for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”;

(b) in subsection (3), for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State” and for “it” substitute “the Secretary of State”;

(c) in subsection (4), for “Commission” (in both places) substitute “Secretary of State” and for “it” substitute “the Secretary of State”;

(d) in subsection (5), for “Commission” (in both places) substitute “Secretary of State”; and

(e) in subsections (6), (7) and (8)(b), for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”.

(1)

Relevant amendments were made to sections 7 and 8 by the 1998 Act, the 2000 Act and the 2008 Act.