Amendment of the Child Support Appeal Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations
4.—(1) The Child Support Appeal Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) the definition of “appropriate office” shall be omitted.
(3) For regulation 2 (service of notices or documents) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“2.—(1) Where by any provision of the Order or of these Regulations any notice or other document is required to be given or sent—
(a)for the purpose only of lodging an appeal or application, to the Department; or
(b)to the clerk to the tribunal,
that notice or document shall be treated as having been so given or sent on the day that it is received by the Department or by the clerk to the tribunal, as the case may be.
(2) Where by any provision of the Order or of these Regulations any notice or other document is required to be given or sent to any person other than—
(a)for the purpose only of lodging an appeal or application, the Department; or
(b)the clerk to the tribunal,
that notice or document shall, if sent by post to that person’s last known address, be treated as having been given or sent on the day that it was posted.
(3) The provisions of paragraph (2) shall apply to a summons issued under regulation 10.”.
(4) In regulation 3 (making an appeal or application and time limits)—
(a)in paragraph (2) for “clerk to the tribunal at the appropriate office” there shall be substituted “Department”;
(b)after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(2A) The sending or delivering referred to in paragraph (2) shall be effected by sending or delivering the notice to the Child Support Agency Appeals Section at the Great Northern Tower, 17 Great Victoria Street, Belfast BT2 7AD.”.
S.R. 1993 No. 50; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 162 and S.R. 1996 No. 457