The Child Support (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 16th April 2002.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendment of the Child Support (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations

2.—(1) The Child Support (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) In regulation 2 (adaptation)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “Exchange of Letters set out in Schedule 1A” there shall be substituted “Exchange of Letters set out in Schedules 1A and 1B”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) after “column 2 of Schedule 2” there shall be inserted “or column 2 of Schedule 3”;

(ii) for the words from “of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991” to “ column 1 of Schedule 2” where it first appears there shall be substituted “of the Northern Ireland legislation specified in the corresponding paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 2 and column 1 of Schedule 3”;

(iii) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.

(3) After Schedule 1A (exchange of letters) there shall be inserted, as Schedule 1B, the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(4) In Schedule 2 (adaptation)—

(a) after the entry relating to Article 12 there shall be inserted the following entry—

“Article 16A

Section 14A

Information offences”;

(b) the entry relating to Article 28 shall be omitted.

(5) After Schedule 2 there shall be inserted, as Schedule 3, the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 25th March 2002.

L.S.

John O'Neill

Senior Officer of the

Department for Social Development