The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991

[F19.—[F2(1)] The Department may by regulations provide for—N.I.

[F3(za)for how it is to be determined whether the care of a qualifying child is to be shared as mentioned in paragraph 7(2);]

(a)which nights are to count for the purposes of shared care under paragraphs 7 and 8, F4...;

(b)what counts, or does not count, as “care” for those purposes; and

[F5(ba)for how it is to be determined how many nights count for those purposes;]

(c)paragraph 7(3) or 8(2) to have effect, in prescribed circumstances, as if the period mentioned there were other than twelve months, and in such circumstances for the Table in paragraph 7(4)(or that Table as modified pursuant to regulations made under paragraph 10A(2)(a)), or the period mentioned in paragraph 8(2), to have effect with prescribed adjustments.

[F6(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1)(ba) may include provision enabling the Department to proceed for a prescribed period on the basis of a prescribed assumption.]]

F2Sch. 1 para. 9(1): Sch. 1 para. 9 renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 9(1) (3.12.2012 for specified purposes) by Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 10), s. 41(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(1); S.R. 2012/423, art. 2(2)(d)