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

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

6.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) In regulation 4(1)(2) (flat rate) –

(a) after sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) the word “and” shall be omitted; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (f) there shall be added –

• “; and

  (g)

  a payment under a scheme mentioned in section 1(2) of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004 (compensation schemes for armed and reserve forces).”.

(3) After regulation 5(1)(gg)(3) (nil rate) there shall be inserted “or”.

(4) In regulation 11(1) (non-resident parent liable to pay maintenance under a maintenance order) for the words after “pay maintenance” there shall be substituted –

• “for that child –

  (i)

  under a maintenance order;

  (ii)

  in accordance with the terms of an order made by a court outside Northern Ireland, or

  (iii)

  under the legislation of a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom,

  that case shall be treated as a special case for the purpose of the Order.”.

(5) In the Schedule (net weekly income) in paragraph 7(4)(a) for “equivalent to any personal allowance” there shall be substituted “calculated as if it were equivalent to any personal allowance which would be”.

(1)

S.R. 2001 No. 18; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 323 and S.R. 2003 Nos. 191, 261 and 469

(2)

Regulation 4(1) was amended by paragraph 1(t) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323 and regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2003 No. 469

(3)

Regulation 5(1)(gg) was inserted by regulation 33(4) of S.R. 2003 No. 191 and amended by regulation 6(b) of S.R. 2003 No. 261