The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations

3.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In Schedule 1 (calculation of N and M) –

(a) in paragraph 2A(3)(a)(2) for “equivalent to any personal allowance” there shall be substituted “calculated as if it were equivalent to any personal allowance which would be”; and

(b) in paragraph 3(5)(a)(3) for “equivalent to any personal allowance” there shall be substituted “calculated as if it were equivalent to any personal allowance which would be”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (amounts to be disregarded when calculating or estimating N and M) –

(a) after paragraph 18 there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“18A.   Subject to paragraph 20(4), and to the extent that it does not exceed £10·00, a payment made in respect of a parent under a scheme mentioned in section 1(2) of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004(5) (compensation schemes for armed and reserve forces).”;

(b) in paragraph 20 for “18 and 19(1)”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted “18 to 19(1)”; and

(c) in paragraph 25(6) for the words from “a scheme approved” to “allowances to adopters)” there shall be substituted “any regulations made under Article 59A or pursuant to Article 59A(6) of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(7) (permitted allowances)”.

(4) In Schedule 4(8) (cases where child support maintenance is not to be payable) in paragraph (b) –

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (ix) the word “and” shall be omitted; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (ix) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –

“(x) the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004; and”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 341; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1993 No. 164, S.R. 1995 No. 162, S.R. 1996 Nos. 65 and 590, S.R. 1998 No. 8, S.R. 1999 No. 152, S.R. 2002 No. 323 and S.R. 2003 No. 84; S.R. 1992 No. 341 is revoked, with savings, by regulation 15 of S.R. 2001 No. 18

(2)

Paragraph 2A was inserted by regulation 4(5)(a) of S.R. 1999 No. 152

(3)

Paragraph 3(5) was substituted by regulation 3(7)(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 590 and amended by regulation 4(14)(b)(ii) of S.R. 1998 No. 8

(4)

Paragraph 20 was amended by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 65

(5)

2004 c. 32

(6)

Paragraph 25 was amended by regulation 5(12)(b) of S.R. 1993 No. 164

(7)

S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22); Article 59A was inserted by paragraph 164 of Schedule 9 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2))

(8)

Schedule 4 was amended by regulation 5(14) of S.R. 1993 No. 164, regulation 9(18) of S.R. 1995 No. 162, paragraph 1(l) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323 and regulation 3(7) of S.R. 2003 No. 84