The Child Maintenance (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012

Appointed day

2.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Act, for the purposes of those types of cases falling within Article 3—

(a) sections 9 and 10 (power to regulate supersession and determination of applications for a variation)

(b) in Schedule 1 (changes to the calculation of maintenance) paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 to 10, and section 8 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 so far as relating to those paragraphs;

(c) in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments) sub-paragraphs (4) and (25), and section 38(1) and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 so far as relating to those sub-paragraphs;

(d) in Schedule 5 (repeals) the repeals relating to—

(i) Schedule 1 to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1), and

(ii) the Civil Partnership Act 2004(2),

and section 39 so far as it relates to those repeals,

in so far as not already in operation, is 10th December 2012.

(2) The day appointed for the coming into operation of—

(a) sections 23 and 24 (power to accept part payment of arrears in full and final satisfaction and to write off arrears); and

(b) section 26 (meaning of “child”),

of the Act, in so far as not already in operation, is 10th December 2012.

(1)

S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23)

(2)

2004 c. 33