Welfare Reform Act 2012 Explanatory Notes

Section 141: Review of fees regulations

706.Section 141 amends section 6 of the 2008 Act by inserting new paragraphs (3A) to (3D). These paragraphs require the Secretary of State to review the effect of the first regulations made under section 6(1) of the 2008 Act (regulations about the charging of fees by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in connection with its functions). The review must take place within 30 months from the date that those regulations come in to force. They also require the Secretary of State to make and publish a report after the review. The report should contain the conclusions of the review and a statement as to what the Secretary of State proposes to do in view of those conclusions. The Secretary of State must lay the report before Parliament.

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