
2003 No. 91
FAMILY LAW
CHILD SUPPORT
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Child Support and Social Security (Transitional Provision) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made 24th February 2003
Coming into operation 3rd March 2003
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 28(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
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These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support and Social Security (Transitional Provision) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 3rd March 2003.
Amendment of revocation, saving and transitional provisions
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(4) In the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 –
(a) in regulation 3(2) (savings) for “Where” there shall be substituted “Subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, where”; and
(b) in regulation 4 (revocations) for “The” there shall be substituted “Subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and regulation 3(1), the”.
(5) At the beginning of each of the provisions specified in paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –“
(Z1) This regulation is subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.”.
(6) The provisions referred to in paragraph (5) are –
(a) regulation 5 of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (savings);
(b) regulation 9 of the Child Support (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (savings for particular cases); and
(c) regulation 4 of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (transitional provisions and savings).
Amendment of the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations
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In regulation 16 of the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (conversion calculation and conversion decision) after paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –“
(2B) For the purposes of regulation 2 of the Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (interpretation for the purposes of section 72A of the Act), a conversion decision shall be treated on or after the case conversion date as if it were a maintenance calculation.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 24th February 2003.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
