The Child Support Appeal Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations 1992

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support Appeal Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:–

• “absent parent” has the meaning assigned to it in section 3(2) of the Act;

• “the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991;

• “Central Office” means the Central Office of Child Support Appeal Tribunals at Anchorage Two, Anchorage Quay, Salford Quays, Manchester, M5 2YN;

• “chairman”, subject to paragraph (3), means a person nominated under paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Act and includes the President and any full-time chairman;

• “clerk to the tribunal” means a person appointed under paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act;

• “Commissioner” means the Chief or any other Child Support Commissioner appointed under section 22 of the Act;

• “full-time chairman” means a regional or other full-time chairman of a child support appeal tribunal appointed under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Act;

• “party to the proceedings” means–

  (a)

  the person with care;

  (b)

  the absent parent;

  (c)

  any child who has made an application for a maintenance assessment under section 7 of the Act;

  (d)

  the child support officer;

  (e)

  any other person, who on an application made by him, appears to the chairman of the tribunal to be interested in the proceedings;

• “person with care” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(3) of the Act;

• “President” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 3 to the Act;

• “proceedings” means proceedings on an appeal or application to which these Regulations apply; and

• “tribunal” means a child support appeal tribunal constituted in accordance with section 21 of the Act.

(3) Unless otherwise provided, where by these Regulations anything is required to be done by, or any power is conferred on, a chairman, then–

(a) if that thing is to be done or the power is to be exercised at the hearing of an appeal or application, it shall be done or exercised by the chairman of the tribunal hearing the appeal or application; and

(b) otherwise, shall be done or exercised by a person who is eligible to be nominated to act as a chairman of a child support appeal tribunal under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to the Act.

(4) 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; and

(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.