The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement No. 14 and Transitional Provisions) and the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 18 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2014

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement No. 14 and Transitional Provisions) and the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 18 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2014.

(2) In this Order—

“1991 Act” means the Child Support Act 1991(1);

“2008 Act” means the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008;

“maintenance assessment” has the meaning given in section 54 (interpretation) of the 1991 Act before its substitution by section 26 (amendments) of, and paragraph 11(1) and (20)(d) of Schedule 3 (amendment of enactments) to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000(2);

“maintenance calculation” has the meaning given in section 54 of the 1991 Act(3);

“new calculation rules” means Part 1 of Schedule 1 (calculation of weekly amount of child support maintenance) to the 1991 Act as amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 (calculation by reference to gross weekly income) to the 2008 Act;

“transition period” has the meaning given in regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) of the Child Support (Ending Liability in Existing Cases and Transition to New Calculation Rules) Regulations 2014(4).

(3) In this Order, a reference to an existing case is to a case in which there is—

(a) a maintenance assessment in force;

(b) a maintenance calculation, made otherwise than in accordance with the new calculation rules, in force;

(c) an application for a maintenance assessment which has been made but not determined; or

(d) an application for a maintenance calculation, which falls to be made otherwise than in accordance with the new calculation rules, which has been made but not determined.

(1)

1991 c. 48.

(2)

2000 c. 19.

(3)

The definition of “maintenance calculation” was substituted for the definition of “maintenance assessment” in section 54 of the 1991 Act by paragraph 11(1) and (20)(d) of Schedule 3 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”).

(4)

S.I. 2014/614.