The Child Support and Social Security (Transitional Provision) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

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(a) regulation 29(1) of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[3] (revocation and savings); and

(b) regulation 15(1) of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[4] (revocation and savings).

    (3) In regulation 33(1) of the Child Support (Variations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[5] (revocation and savings) after "Subject to" there shall be inserted "the Transitional Regulations and".

    (4) In the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[6] -

(a) in regulation 3(2) (savings) for "Where" there shall be substituted "Subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, where"; and

(b) in regulation 4 (revocations) for "The" there shall be substituted "Subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and regulation 3(1), the".

    (5) At the beginning of each of the provisions specified in paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

    " (Z1) This regulation is subject to the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.".

    (6) The provisions referred to in paragraph (5) are -

(a) regulation 5 of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[7] (savings);

(b) regulation 9 of the Child Support (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[8] (savings for particular cases); and

(c) regulation 4 of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[9] (transitional provisions and savings).

Amendment of the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations
     3. In regulation 16 of the Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (conversion calculation and conversion decision) after paragraph (2A)[10] there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

    " (2B) For the purposes of regulation 2 of the Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996[11] (interpretation for the purposes of section 72A of the Act), a conversion decision shall be treated on or after the case conversion date as if it were a maintenance calculation.".

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on


24th February 2003.

L.S.

John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development

[2] S.R. 2001 No. 19; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 164 and S.R. 2003 No. 84back

[3] S.R. 2001 No. 17back

[4] S.R. 2001 No. 18back

[5] S.R. 2001 No. 20back

[6] S.R. 2001 No. 23back

[7] S.R. 2001 No. 15back

[8] S.R. 2001 No. 29back

[9] S.R. 2001 No. 16back

[10] Paragraph (2A) was inserted by regulation 10(7)(b) of S.R. 2003 No. 84back

[11] S.R. 1996 No. 202; regulation 2 was amended by regulation 5 of S.R. 2001 No. 29back