The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2012

Made: 17th September 2012

Laid before the House of Commons: 17th September 2012

Coming into force: 29th October 2012

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 87(4) and (9) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 29th October 2012.

• (2) In these Regulations, “the Northern Ireland Regulations” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993[^f00002].

Amendment of the Northern Ireland Regulations

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• (1) The Northern Ireland Regulations are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 2(1), for “1A and 1B” substitute “1A, 1B and 1C”.

• (3) After Schedule 1B (Exchange of Letters) insert Schedule 1C as set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1 — SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED INTO THE NORTHERN IRELAND REGULATIONS

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Steve Webb — Minister of State, — Department for Work and Pensions — 17th September 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations give effect in Great Britain to amendments made to reciprocal arrangements relating to matters for which provision is made by the Child Support Act 1991, and, in Northern Ireland, by the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991. The amendments to the arrangements are related to the introduction of new rules for calculating child support maintenance, which were introduced by the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 and the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. They make provision so that where the new calculation rules apply to a case, the case will be administered in the territory where the non-resident parent resides, and the provisions applying in that territory will apply.

The amendments are contained in the Exchange of Letters between the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Minister for Social Development set out in the Schedule to the Regulations.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1998 c.47.

[^f00002]: S.I.1993/584; amending instruments are S.I. 1995/3261 and 2002/771.