Regulation 2 Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations

(1)

The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 1 (meaning of “child” for the purposes of the Order)—

(a)

for the heading to paragraph 1^f2 substitute—

“Conditions prescribed for the purposes of Article 3(1)”; and

(b)

after paragraph 7 (education otherwise than at a recognised educational establishment) ^f3 add—

“Person in respect of whom child benefit is payable

8.

For the purposes of paragraphs 1(3) and 4(2), a person in respect of whom child benefit is payable includes a person in respect of whom an election has been made under section 11A(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f4for payments of child benefit not to be made.”

(3)

After paragraph 2(11) of Schedule 2^f5 (multiple applications), add—

“(12)
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (9)(c), where a person has made an election under section 11A(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 for payments of child benefit not to be made in respect of a child, that person is to be treated as the person to whom child benefit is being paid in respect of that child.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1992 No. 340; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1999 No. 167, S.R. 2008 No. 404 and S.R. 2012 No. 438
f2: Paragraph 1 was substituted by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 2012 No. 438
f3: Paragraph 7 was substituted by regulation 2(e) of S.R. 2012 No. 438
f4: 1992 c. 8 (N.I.); section 11A was inserted by paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Finance Act 2012 (c. 14 (N.I.))
f5: Paragraph 2 was amended by regulation 2(26)(a) of S.R. 1999 No. 167 and regulation 2(10)(b) of S.R. 2008 No. 404