# The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993, Paragraph 1


In this Memorandum, unless the context otherwise requires:
“the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991 and “the Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;
“application”, for the purposes of Article 5, includes an application by an absent parent and an application under section 7 of the Act;
“determining authority” means, in relation to Great Britain, a child support officer, a child support appeal tribunal, a Child Support Commissioner, or a tribunal consisting of any three of the Child Support Commissioners, and appointed or constituted under the Act, and, in relation to Northern Ireland, a child support officer or a child support appeal tribunal appointed or constituted under the Order, a Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland appointed under the Act or a tribunal consisting of any two or three of the Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland constituted under the Order;
“parent with care” means a person who, in respect of the same child or children, is both a parent and a person with care;
“territory” means Great Britain or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/584/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-reciprocal-arrangements-regulations-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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