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The Child Support (Management of Payments and Arrears) Regulations 2009

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Explanatory Note

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These Regulations are made under powers in the Child Support Act 1991 (c.19) (“the 1991 Act”) and come into force on 25th January 2010. They are, in part, consolidating regulations which revoke and re-enact some provisions of the Child Support (Arrears, Interest and Adjustment of Maintenance Assessments) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1816) (“the AIMA Regulations”), with some changes.

Regulations 3 and 4 re-enact regulations 2 and 9 of the AIMA Regulations. Regulation 3 requires the Commission to serve a notice on a non-resident parent where it is considering taking action in relation to arrears of child support maintenance due. Regulation 4 allows the Commission to attribute any payment of child support maintenance made by the non-resident parent to child support maintenance due as it thinks fit.

Regulations 5 and 6 set out the circumstances in which the Commission may set off an amount against a person's liability to pay child support maintenance. There are 2 situations in which set off may occur. Regulation 5 provides that where the parent with care and the non-resident parent each owes child support maintenance to the other, the Commission may set off one person's liability against the other person's liability. Regulation 6 allows prescribed payments made by a non-resident parent to be set off against their liability. Regulation 7 makes provision as to how any amount should be set off against that liability.

Regulations 8 and 9 provide for the adjustment of arrears and amounts of child support maintenance payable to take account of overpayments and voluntary payments. They re-enact regulation 10 of the AIMA regulations, with a change which allows the amount payable to be reduced to nil.

Regulation 10 limits the application of Part 4 to those cases where the Commission is authorised to collect child support maintenance and the person dies on or after the date these Regulations come into force.

Regulation 11 provides that arrears of child support maintenance owed by a deceased person immediately before death are a debt payable by the deceased's executor or administrator out of the deceased's estate.

Regulation 12(1) provides for the executor or administrator of the estate to have the same rights as the deceased person prior to death to institute, continue or withdraw proceedings under the 1991 Act, whether by way of appeal or otherwise. Regulation 12(2) modifies regulation 34 of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/991) (“the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”) so that the Commission must appoint a deceased non-resident parent's executor or administrator to proceed with any appeal, unless there is no such person in which case the Commission may appoint such person as it thinks fit.

Regulation 13 makes provision for the disclosure of information to the deceased's executor or administrator where it is essential, in the Commission's opinion, for the proper administration of the estate, including the bringing, continuing or withdrawing of proceedings under the 1991 Act.

Regulation 14, and the Schedule, revokes various provisions in the AIMA Regulations and related provisions in the Decisions and Appeal Regulations, some of which deal with the appeal of decisions to adjust the amount payable to take account of an overpayment or voluntary payment.

Regulation 15 saves the relevant provisions for specified purposes where the decision to adjust the amount payable was made before the coming into force of these Regulations.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.

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