Article 1 Title and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.

P1(2)

This Order shall come into operation on such day or days as may be appointed by order made by the Lord Chancellor or the Head of the Department or by both of them acting jointly.

(3)

An order under paragraph (2) may make such supplemental, incidental or transitional provision as appears to the person making the order to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation by the order, including such adaptations or modifications of—

(a)

the provisions so brought into operation;

(b)

any provisions of this Order then in operation; or

(c)

any provision of any other statutory provision,

as appear to him to be necessary or expedient.

(4)

Different provision may be made by virtue of paragraph (3) with respect to different periods.

(5)

Any provision made by virtue of paragraph (3) may, in particular, include provision for—

(a)

the enforcement of a F1maintenance calculation (including the collection of sums payable under the F2calculation) as if the calculation were a court order of a prescribed kind;

(b)

the registration of maintenance F3calculations with the appropriate court in connection with any provision of a kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (a);

(c)

the variation, on application made to a court, of the provisions of a F4maintenance calculation relating to the method of making payments fixed by the F5calculation or the intervals at which such payments are to be made;

(d)

a F6maintenance calculation, or an order of a prescribed kind relating to one or more children, to be deemed, in prescribed circumstances, to have been validly made for all purposes or for such purposes as may be prescribed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in art. 1(5)(a) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(a), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.
F2: Word in art. 1(5)(a) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(b), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.
F3: Word in art. 1(5)(b) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(b), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.
F4: Words in art. 1(5)(c) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(a), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.
F5: Word in art. 1(5)(c) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(b), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.
F6: Words in art. 1(5)(d) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(a), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.

Subordinate legislation made

P1

Art. 1(2) power partly exercised: 18.6.1992 appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 1992/278, art. 2, Sch.;

1.9.1992 appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 1992/347, art. 2;

5.4.1993 appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 1992/467, art. 2 (with transitional provisions in art. 3, Sch.)