Article 22 Amendment of the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations

For regulation 7 of the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999^f1 (transitional provisions) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“7

(1)

A decision with respect to a maintenance assessment in force on the first or second commencement day shall not be superseded by a decision under Article 19 of the Order solely to give effect to these Regulations.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,

from whichever is the later of—

(i)

the date from which that revision or, as the case may be, supersession takes effect, or

(ii)

the first day of the first maintenance period which begins on or after the first or second commencement day, as the case may be.

(3)

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