Paragraph 1
(1)
The Lord Chancellor may make such regulations with respect to proceedings before Child Support Commissioners as he considers appropriate.
(2)
The regulations—
(a)
may, in particular, make any provision of a kind mentioned inF1 Schedule 4 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998; and
(b)
shall provide that any hearing before a Child Support Commissioner shall be in public except in so far as the Commissioner for special reasons directs otherwise.