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.

In these Regulations—

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

• “the Children Order” means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 19953;

• “the Act” means the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 20004;

• “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) 20015;

• “maintenance period” has the same meaning as in Article 19(4A) of the Order6;

• “relevant person” means—

  1. a

     a person with care;

  2. b

     a non-resident parent;

  3. 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.

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