Article 18 Amendment of the Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations

For regulation 11 of the Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1 (transitional provision relating to maintenance assessments) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“11

(1)

A decision with respect to a maintenance assessment in force on 7th April 1997 shall not be superseded by a decision under Article 19 of the Order solely to give effect to these Regulations.

(2)

These Regulations shall apply to a fresh maintenance assessment made by virtue of—

(a)

a revision under Article 18 of the Order of a decision with respect to a maintenance assessment; or

(b)

a decision under Article 19 of the Order which supersedes a decision with respect to a maintenance assessment,

as from the effective date of that revision under Article 18 of the Order or, as the case may be, decision under Article 19 of the Order.

(3)

In this regulation “the Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.”.