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The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022

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Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 503

Family Law

The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022

Made

3rd May 2022

Laid before Parliament

5th May 2022

Coming into force

26th May 2022

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations—

(a)in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14(1) of the Child Support Act 1991(1); and

(b)as the appropriate Minister in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8 and 9 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(2).

In accordance with section 8(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000, the Secretary of State considers that the authorisation of the use of electronic communications and storage by these Regulations for any purpose is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will be available will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications and electronic storage than in other cases.

(1)

1991 c. 48. Section 14(1) was amended by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), Part 1, section 12 and Schedule 3, paragraph 11(7) and the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), Schedule 8, paragraph 1.

(2)

2000 c. 7. The terms used in sections 8(1) and (2) are defined in section 15(1), other than “appropriate minister” which has the meaning in section 9(1). Section 15(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), Schedule 17, paragraph 158.

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