{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-2008-act-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/440",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Maintenance (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-2008-act-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order brings into operation the following provisions of the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008—\nfor the purpose of applying new rules for calculating child support maintenance in the types of case falling within Article 3—\nsections 9 and 10;\nparagraphs 2, 3 and 5 to 10 of Schedule 1, and section 8 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 so far as relating to those paragraphs;\nminor amendments in Schedule 4, and section 38(1) and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 so far as relating to those amendments; and\nconsequential repeals in Schedule 5, and section 39 so far as relating to those repeals; and\nsections 23, 24 and 26,\nin so far as not already in operation, on 10th December 2012.\nArticle 4 makes transitional provision so that the new calculation rules only apply to an existing case from the date the calculation made in response to the new application takes effect.\nArticle 5 makes transitional provision to allow a non-resident parent’s gross weekly income to be calculated on the basis of his current income if HMRC is for any reason unable to provide historic income information in relation to the non-resident parent.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/440/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}