9.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) –
(a)after the definition of “an authority” there shall be inserted the following definition –
““child tax credit” means a child tax credit under section 8 of the Tax Credits Act 2002;”;
(b)the definition of “disabled person’s tax credit” shall be omitted; and
(c)for the definition of “working families' tax credit” there shall be substituted the following definition –
““working tax credit” means a working tax credit under section 10 of the Tax Credits Act 2002; and”.
(3) In regulation 8(1)(a) (persons treated as non-resident parents) for “qualifying child” there shall be substituted “child, being a child in respect of whom an application for a maintenance calculation has been made or treated as made”.
(4) In the Schedule (net weekly income) –
(a)in paragraph 6(1) for “sub-paragraphs (2) to (4)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraphs (3) and (4)”;
(b)paragraphs 6(2) and 9(4) shall be omitted;
(c)in paragraph 11 –
(i)for “working families' tax credit”, wherever it occurs, including in the heading, there shall be substituted “working tax credit”;
(ii)in sub-paragraph (1) for “sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (2)”;
(iii)in sub-paragraph (2) –
(aa)for “the weekly earnings” there shall be substituted “the earnings”;
(bb)for “the normal weekly earnings”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted “the earnings”; and
(cc)in head (a), the words “(as determined in accordance with Chapter II of Part IV of the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987)” shall be omitted;
(iv)after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph –
“(2A) For the purposes of this paragraph, “earnings” means the employment income and the income from self-employment of the non-resident parent and the other person referred to in sub-paragraph (2), as determined for the purposes of their entitlement to working tax credit.”, and
(v)sub-paragraph (3) shall be omitted;
(d)paragraph 13(2) shall be omitted; and
(e)at the end of Part IV (Tax Credits) there shall be added the following paragraph –
13A. Payments made by way of child tax credit to a non-resident parent or his partner at the rate payable at the effective date.”.
S.R. 2001 No. 18; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 164
Paragraph 13 was substituted by regulation 8(b) of S.R. 2002 No. 164