The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 16th April 2002.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Northern Ireland Regulations” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993(1).

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Northern Ireland Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 2 of the Northern Ireland Regulations (adaptation) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1), for the words “Exchange of Letters set out in Schedule 1A” there shall be substituted the words “Exchanges of Letters set out in Schedules 1A and 1B”.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

(a) after the words “column 2 of Schedule 2” there shall be inserted the words “or column 2 of Schedule 3”;

(b) after the words “column 1 of Schedule 2” where they first occur there shall be inserted the words “or column 1 of Schedule 3 and for the purposes of the provision of the Family Law Act 1986(2) specified in the corresponding paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 3”;

(c) for the words “of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland” there shall be substituted the words “for Social Development”; and

(d) paragraph (c) shall be omitted.

Insertion of Schedule 1B into the Northern Ireland Regulations

3.  After Schedule 1A to the Northern Ireland Regulations (Exchange of Letters), there shall be inserted, as Schedule 1B, the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Regulations

4.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Regulations (adaptation) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

(2) After the entry relating to section 10 there shall be inserted the following entry—

• “Section 14A Article 16A Information — offences”.

(3) The words “Sections 27 and 28” in column 1, “Article 28” in column 2 and “Declaration of parentage” in column 3 shall be omitted.

Insertion of Schedule 3 to the Northern Ireland Regulations

5.  After Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Regulations (adaptation) there shall be inserted, as Schedule 3, the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

P. Hollis

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

21st March 2002