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Regulation 2 Adaptation of the Child Support Act 1991 and regulations in respect of child support

(1)

The provisions contained in the Memorandum of Arrangements set out in Schedule 1 F1as amended by the F2Exchanges of Letters set out in Schedules F31A, 1B, 1C and 1D to these Regulations shall have effect so far as the same relate to Great Britain.

(2)

In particular and without prejudice to paragraph (1) above any act, omission and event which has effect for the purposes of the provision of the Northern Ireland legislation specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 F4or column 2 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall also have effect as an act, omission and event for the purposes of the provision of the Child Support Act 1991 specified in the corresponding paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 2 F5or column 1 of Schedule 3 and for the purposes of the provision of the Family Law Act 1986 specified in the corresponding paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 3 to the said Regulations; and in the provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations the references to—

(a)

“the Act” shall be construed as including references to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 M1;

(b)

“the Secretary of State” shall be construed as including references to the Department F6for Social Development;

F7(c)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)

“child support maintenance” shall be construed as including references to child support maintenance within the meaning of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (22.1.1996) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments)(No. 2) Regulations 1995, S.I. 1995/3261, regs. 1(2), 53

F2

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (16.4.2002) by The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/771), regs. 1(1), 2(2)

F3

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1423), regs. 1, 2(2)

F4

Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (16.4.2002) by The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/771), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)

F5

Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (16.4.2002) by The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/771), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)

F6

Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (16.4.2002) by The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/771), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(c)

F7

Reg. 2(2)(c) omitted (16.4.2002) by virtue of The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/771), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(d)

Marginal citations

M1

S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23).