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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991;
“appeal tribunal” means a child support appeal tribunal;
“the chairman”, for the purposes of regulations 2 and 3, means—
the person who was the chairman of the appeal tribunal which gave the decision against which leave to appeal is being sought; or
where the application for leave to appeal to a Commissioner was dealt with under regulation 2(2), the chairman who dealt with the application;
“Chief Commissioner” means the Chief Child Support Commissioner appointed under section 22(1) of the Act;
“Commissioner” means the Chief or any other Child Support Commissioner appointed under section 22(1) of the Act and includes a Tribunal of Commissioners constituted under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Act;
“proceedings” means any proceedings before a Commissioner, whether by way of an application for leave to appeal to, or from, a Commissioner, or by way of an appeal or otherwise;
“respondent” means any person, other than the applicant or appellant, who participated as a party to the proceedings before the appeal tribunal, and any other person who, pursuant to a direction given under regulation 7(1)(a), is served with notice of the appeal; and
“summons” in relation to Scotland, means “citation” and regulation 14 shall be construed accordingly.
(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—
(a)to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;
(b)in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number;
(c)in a paragraph to a lettered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter.
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