http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1999/1510

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The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Child support

Family support

Children in care

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2017-05-16

SOCIAL SECURITY

FAMILY LAW;CHILD SUPPORT

This Order provides for the coming into force on 1st June 1999 of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1998 which—enable the Lord Chancellor to—appoint a President of appeal tribunals; andconstitute a panel from which the President of appeal tribunals may draw persons to act as members of appeal tribunals;enable the Secretary of State to appoint officers and staff for the President of appeal tribunals and for appeal tribunals;enable regulations to be made supplementing the provision made by section 26 of the Social Security Act 1998.remove the power of the President of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals to appoint officers and staff for—himself;regional and other full-time chairmen of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals;social security appeal tribunals;disability appeal tribunals; andmedical appeal tribunals;amend the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c. 8) (“the 1993 Act”) in consequence of provisions of the Social Security Act 1998—by removing references to chairmen of child support appeal tribunals (in view of the replacement of such tribunals by appeal tribunals constituted under section 7 of the Social Security Act 1998);so as to provide that the office of President of appeal tribunals is a qualifying judicial office for the purposes of the 1993 Act (new arrangements for judicial pensions);substitute new procedures for making decisions and appeals with respect to child support; andrepeal words in the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 18) in consequence of the commencement of paragraph 12 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 1998 by article 2(4)(b) of the Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/526) (article 2).

PART XVIIAMENDMENT OF THE CHILD SUPPORT (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) REGULATIONS 1999

Substitution of regulation 747

For regulation 7 (transitional provisions) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

Transitional provisions7
1
A decision with respect to a maintenance assessment in force on the first or second commencement day shall not be superseded by a decision under section 17 of the Act solely to give effect to these Regulations.
2
These Regulations shall apply to a fresh maintenance assessment made by virtue of—
a
a revision under section 16 of the Act of a decision with respect to a maintenance assessment; or
b
a decision under section 17 of the Act which supersedes a decision with respect to a maintenance assessment,
as from whichever is the later of—
i
the date as from which that revision or, as the case may be, supersession takes effect; or
ii
the first day of the first maintenance period which begins on or after the first or second commencement day, as the case may be.