The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation in relation to a particular case on the day on which sections 1(2), 3, 4 and 18 of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 to, the Act come into operation in relation to that type of case.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

“the Children Order” means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1);

“the Act” means the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000(2);

“date of notification to the non-resident parent” means the date on which the non-resident parent is first given notice of a maintenance application;

“effective application” means as provided for in regulation 3;

“date of receipt” means the day on which the information or document is actually received;

“effective date” means the date on which a maintenance calculation takes effect for the purposes of the Order;

“notice of a maintenance application” means notice by the Department under regulation 5(1) that an application for a maintenance calculation has been made, or treated as made, in relation to which the non-resident parent is named as a parent of the child to whom the application relates;

“the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(3);

“maintenance period” has the same meaning as in Article 19(4A) of the Order(4);

“relevant person” means—

(a)

a person with care;

(b)

a non-resident parent;

(c)

a parent who is treated as a non-resident parent under regulation 8 of the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations,

in respect of whom a maintenance calculation has been applied for, or has been treated as applied for under Article 9(3) of the Order, or is or has been in force.

(3) The provisions in Schedule 1 shall have effect to supplement the meaning of “child” in Article 3 of the Order.

(1)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)

(2)

2000 c. 4 (N.I.)

(3)

S.R. 2001 No. 18

(4)

Article 19(4A) is inserted by section 9 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000