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(1) This Order may be cited as the Child Maintenance (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008.
(2) In this Order—
 “the 1991 Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.
(3) In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise, any reference to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference to a section of, or Schedule to, the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.
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(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of—
(a) section 12 (use of deduction from earnings orders as basic method of payment); and
(b) section 27 (offence of failing to notify change of address);for the purpose of making regulations is 29th September 2008, and for all other purposes is 27th October 2008.
(2) In so far as not already in operation, the day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions is 27th October 2008—
(a) section 7(a) (repeal of Articles 9 and 43);
(b) sections 38(1) and 39, so far as relating to the paragraphs and entries referred to in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) below;
(c) paragraphs 2(1) and (2) of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments); and
(d) in Schedule 5 (repeals), the entries relating to repeals in—
(i) Articles 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 22(1)(e) and 2(d), 27, 27A, 28, 28A, 28F, 28J, 29, 38, and 48 of, and Schedules 4A and 4B to, the 1991 Order,
(ii) sections 102 and 116(3) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and
(iii) section 3 of, and paragraphs 13(b), 14(a), 15, 17, 18 and 28 of Schedule 3 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000.
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(1) Any existing case, as defined in paragraph (2), shall be treated from 27th October 2008 as though the person with care had made an application under Article 7 of the 1991 Order.
(2) In paragraph (1), an existing case is one in which, immediately before 14th July 2008, Article 9 of the 1991 Order applied in relation to a parent with care and—
(a) a maintenance assessment or calculation was in force as a result of the Department acting under that Article; or
(b) no maintenance assessment or calculation had been made but the Department had given notice in accordance with regulation 5 of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 or regulation 5 of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.
(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in any case where the maintenance assessment or calculation ceases to have effect, or would have ceased to have effect had it been made, before 27th October 2008.
(4) The repeal of Article 9 of the 1991 Order shall not prevent the Department from exercising any powers that otherwise it would have had under Article 38 of that Order to recover and retain arrears of child support maintenance accrued in relation to any period before 27th October 2008.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 26th September 2008
(L.S.)John O’Neill
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
