Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Voluntary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on the day on which Article 28J of the Order comes into operation.

(2)

In these Regulations—

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

“debit card” means a card, operating as a substitute for a cheque, that can be used to obtain cash or to make a payment at a point of sale whereby the card holder’s bank or building society account is debited without deferment of payment;

“the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20013;

“the qualifying child’s home” means the home in which the qualifying child resides with the person with care and “home” has the meaning given in regulation 1(2) of the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations; and

“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 Order4, or is or has been in force.