# The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Regulation 9B: Attribution of payments


Where –
(a) there are arrears of child support maintenance under a maintenance assessment; and
(b) the Department has attributed any payment of child support maintenance made by an absent parent to child support maintenance due as it thinks fit, in accordance with regulation 9 of the Arrears, Interest and Adjustment Regulations as it applies to a maintenance assessment,
that attribution of payments shall apply to the new amount or the transitional amount in the conversion decision, as the case may be, if –
(i) the arrears remain on the case conversion date, and
(ii) the Department has made that attribution of payments as it thought fit, in accordance with regulation 9 of the Arrears, Interest and Adjustment Regulations as it applies to a conversion decision.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/19/regulation/9B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-9B
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