6.—(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 ”.
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