
1999 No. 152
FAMILY LAW
CHILD SUPPORT
The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
Made 26th March 1999
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)
The Department of Health and Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 3, 16(3), 32(8) and (9), 39(1), 44, 47 and 48(4) of, and paragraph 5(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to, the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations shall come into operation on 6th April 1999.
(3) Regulations 2(2) and 4(2)(a) and (5)(a) to (d) shall come into operation on 4th October 1999.
(4) In these Regulations—
 “the first commencement day” means 6th April 1999;
 “the second commencement day” means 4th October 1999.
Amendment of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations
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Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations
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Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations
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Amendment of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations
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In regulation 25 of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (offences) before paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(za) regulation 14(1);”.
Amendment of the Fees Regulations
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In regulation 3(3A) of the Child Support Fees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (liability to pay fees) for “1999” there shall be substituted “2001”.
Transitional provisions
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A maintenance assessment in force on the first or second commencement day shall not be reviewed solely to give effect to these Regulations but on a revision of that assessment under Article 18 of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, or a review under Article 19, 20 or 21 of that Order these Regulations shall apply to any fresh maintenance assessment made following that revision or review from the effective date of that assessment, or from the first day of the first maintenance period which begins on or after the first or second commencement day, as the case may be, whichever is the later.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on
John O'Neill
Assistant Secretary
26th March 1999.