SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4MATTERS CONCERNING CHILD SUPPORT COMMISSIONERS

Proceedings before Child Support Commissioners

1

1

The Lord Chancellor may make such regulations with respect to proceedings before Child Support Commissioners as he considers appropriate.

2

The regulations—

a

may, in particular, make any provision of a kind mentioned inF1 Schedule 4 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998; and

b

shall provide that any hearing before a Child Support Commissioner shall be in public except in so far as the Commissioner for special reasons directs otherwise.