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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support Maintenance (Changes to Basic Rate Calculation and Minimum Amount of Liability) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation as follows—
(a) this regulation, on the day on which paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act comes into operation for the first time;
(b) regulation 2, in relation to a particular case, on the day on which paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act comes into operation in relation to that type of case, immediately after that paragraph comes into operation; and
(c) regulation 3, in relation to a particular case, on the day on which paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Act comes into operation in relation to that type of case, immediately after that paragraph comes into operation.
(2) In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;
 “the Child Support Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.
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Paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Order shall have effect as if for “12%”, “16%” and “19%” there were substituted “11%”, “14%” and “16%” respectively.
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Paragraph 5A(2) of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Order shall have effect as if for “£7” there were substituted “£5”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 3rd December 2012
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
