SCHEDULE 4Amendments of subordinate legislation relating to child support

Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 19966

1

Amend the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996 M1 as follows.

2

In regulation 16 (debts incurred before the absent parent became an absent parent)—

a

in paragraph (1) for “a married or unmarried couple” substitute “ a couple ”;

b

for sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (2) substitute the following sub-paragraph—

e

unpaid legal costs in respect of—

i

separation or divorce from the non-applicant parent;

ii

separation from the non-applicant parent or the dissolution of a civil partnership that had been formed with the non-applicant parent;

c

in paragraph (5), in sub-paragraph (a) for “married or unmarried couple” substitute “ couple ”.