The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Amendment of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations

2.—(1) The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) for the definition of “appropriate authority” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““appropriate authority” means an authority administering housing benefit;”.

(3) In regulation 2(2) (persons under a duty to furnish information or evidence)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) where regulation 8(1) of the Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases Regulations applies (persons treated as non-resident parents), a parent of or a person who provides day to day care for the child in respect of whom a maintenance calculation has been applied for or has been treated as applied for or is or has been in force, with respect to the matter listed in sub-paragraph (l) of regulation 3(1);”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (h)(2)—

(i) in head (i) after “1981” there shall be inserted “, sections 97 to 99A of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3)”, and

(ii) in head (ii) after “under” there shall be inserted “the Prison Act 1952(4),” and after “1953” there shall be inserted “or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989(5)”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 339; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 16

(2)

Sub-paragraph (h) was added by regulation 2(5)(d) of S.R. 2001 No. 16

(3)

1988 c. 52; sections 97 to 99A were amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22), the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), the Driving Licence (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (S.I. 1990/144), the Driving Licence (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974) and the Driving Licence (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420)

(4)

1952 c. 52

(5)

1989 c. 45