Amendment of the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

19.—(1) The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 15 (illness or disability)(2)—

(a) in paragraph (3)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b) after “eligible for” insert “the payment or”; and

(ii) after “where applicable, the” insert “payment or”;

(b) in paragraph (4) after “entitled to” insert “armed forces independence payment under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011,”;

(c) in paragraph (4)(a)—

(i) after “entitlement to” insert “that payment or”;

(ii) after “applied for” insert “that payment or”; and

(iii) for the words from “the Department” to the end substitute—

“—

(i) the Secretary of State on the eligibility for that payment, or

(ii) the Department on the eligibility for that allowance,

of that applicant or that dependant;”;

(d) in paragraph (4)(b)—

(i) after “apply for” insert “that payment or”; and

(ii) after “in respect of that” insert “payment or”; and

(e) in paragraph (4A) after “eligible for” insert “the payment or”.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 541.

(2)

Regulation 15 was amended by S.R. 1998 No. 8 and S.R. 1999 No. 167.