The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Amendment of regulation 9A

12.  In regulation 9A(1) (disclosure of information to other persons)—

(a) the words “or a child support officer” in each place in which they occur shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (1)(a), for the words “review under section 17 or 18 of the Act” there shall be substituted the words “revision under section 16 of the Act or a decision under section 17 of the Act superseding an earlier decision”;

(c) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b), for the words “3A of the Child Support Appeal Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations 1992” there shall be substituted the words “34 of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(2)”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c)(i), for the word “review” in both places in which it occurs there shall be substituted the words “revision, supersession”; and

(d) in paragraph (4)(a), for the words “the child support officer concerned” there shall be substituted the words “the officer concerned who is exercising functions of the Secretary of State under the Act”.

(1)

Regulation 9A was inserted by S.I. 1995/1045 and amended by S.I. 1995/3261, 1996/2907, 1998/58 and 1999/977.

(2)

S.I. 1999/991.