# The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, Regulation 2: `Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 19 (supersession of decisions), after paragraph (3) insert—
“(3A) For the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 4C to the Order (decisions and appeals: departure directions and reduced benefit directions, etc.), the circumstances in which a decision may be superseded under paragraph (2) or (3) include where the material change of circumstances causes the maintenance assessment to cease by virtue of paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 1 to the Order (maintenance assessments) or where the Department no longer has jurisdiction by virtue of Article 41 of the Order (jurisdiction).”
(3) In regulation 22 (date from which a superseding decision takes effect) after paragraph (21), insert—
“(21A) Where a superseding decision is made in a case to which regulation 19(3A) applies and the material circumstance is—
(a) a qualifying child dies or ceases to be a qualifying child;
(b) the person with care ceases to be a person with care in relation to a qualifying child; or
(c) the person with care, the absent parent or a qualifying child ceases to be habitually resident in the United Kingdom,
the decision takes effect from the first day of the maintenance period in which the change occurred.”.
(4) In Schedule 1 (meaning of “child” for the purposes of the Order)—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) for paragraph 2 (meaning of “advanced education” for the purposes of Article 3 of the Order), substitute—
“Meaning of “advanced education” for the purposes of Article 3 of the Order
2. For the purposes of Article 3 of the Order “advanced education” means education for the purposes of—
(a) a course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education or a higher national diploma; or
(b) any other course which is of a standard above advanced GNVQ, or equivalent, including a course which is of a standard above a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish national qualification (higher or advanced higher).”;
(c) in paragraph 4 (interruption of full-time education) for sub-paragraph (2), substitute—
“(2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) do not apply to any period of interruption of a person’s full-time education which is followed immediately by a period during which child benefit ceases to be payable in respect of that person.”;
(d) omit paragraph 5 (circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to be treated as continuing to fall within Article 3(1) of the Order);
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/363/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-2
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