Royal Arms Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland)

2000 Chapter 4


 

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Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland)

2000 Chapter 4

 
 
 
CONTENTS

PART I
CHILD SUPPORT
Maintenance calculations and default and interim maintenance decisions
Section 
1.Maintenance calculations and terminology
2.Applications under Article 7 of the Child Support Order
3.Applications by persons claiming or receiving benefit
4.Default and interim maintenance decisions

Applications for a variation
5.Departure from usual rules for calculating maintenance
6.Applications for a variation: further provisions
7.Variations: revision and supersession

Revision and supersession of decisions
8.Revision of decisions
9.Decisions superseding earlier decisions

Appeals
10.Appeals to appeal tribunals
11.Redetermination of appeals

Information
12.Information required by the Department
13.Information – offences
14.Inspectors

Parentage
15.Presumption of parentage in child support cases

Disqualification from driving
16.Disqualification from driving

Financial penalties
17.Financial penalties
18.Reduced benefit decisions

Miscellaneous
19.Voluntary payments
20.Recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit
21.Jurisdiction
22.Abolition of the child maintenance bonus
23.Periodical reviews
24.Regulations
25.Amendments
26.Temporary compensation payment scheme
27.Pilot schemes
28.Transitional provisions, savings, etc.

PART II
PENSIONS
CHAPTER I
STATE PENSIONS
State second pension
29.Earnings from which pension derived
30.Calculation
31.Calculation of Category B retirement pension
32.Revaluation
33.Supplementary

Earnings factors
34.Modification of earnings factors

Preservation of rights in respect of additional pensions
35.Preservation of rights in respect of additional pensions

Other provisions
36.Home responsibilities protection
37.Sharing of state scheme rights
38.Disclosure of state pension information

CHAPTER II
OCCUPATIONAL AND PERSONAL PENSION SCHEMES
Selection of trustees and of directors of corporate trustees
39.Member-nominated trustees
40.Corporate trustees
41.Employer's proposals for selection of trustees or directors
42.Non-compliance in relation to arrangements or proposals

Winding-up of schemes
43.Information to be given to the Authority
44.Modification of scheme to secure winding-up
45.Reports about winding-up
46.Directions for facilitating winding-up

Other provisions
47.Restriction on index-linking where annuity tied to investments
48.Information for members of schemes, etc.
49.Jurisdiction of the Pensions Ombudsman
50.Investigations by the Pensions Ombudsman
51.Prohibition on different rules for overseas residents, etc.
52.Miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules

PART III
SOCIAL SECURITY
Loss of benefit
53.Loss of benefit for breach of community order
54.Loss of joint-claim jobseeker's allowance
55.Information provision
56.Loss of benefit regulations
57.Appeals relating to loss of benefit

Investigation powers
58.Investigation powers

Housing benefit
59.Housing benefit: revisions and appeals
60.Discretionary financial assistance with housing
61.Grants towards cost of discretionary housing payments
62.Recovery of housing benefit

Child benefit
63.Child benefit disregards

Social Security Advisory Committee
64.Social Security Advisory Committee

PART IV
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
Miscellaneous
65.Tests for determining paternity
66.Declarations of status

Supplemental
67.Repeals
68.Commencement and transitional provisions
69.Short title and interpretation
 

SCHEDULES:
    Schedule 1-Substituted Part I of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Order
    Schedule 2-Substituted Schedules 4A and 4B to the Child Support Order
    Part I-Substituted Schedule 4A
    Part II-Substituted Schedule 4B
    Schedule 3-Amendment of statutory provisions relating to child support
    Schedule 4-Additional pension
    Schedule 5-Pensions: miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules
    Part I-Miscellaneous amendments
    Part II-Alternative to anti-franking rules
    Schedule 6-Social security investigation powers
    Schedule 7-Housing benefit: revisions and appeals
    Schedule 8-Declarations of status: consequential amendments
    Schedule 9-Repeals
    Part I-Child support
    Part II-State pensions
    Part III-Occupational and personal pension schemes
    Part IV-Loss of benefit
    Part V-Investigation powers
    Part VI-Housing benefit
    Part VII-Tests for determining parentage and declarations of status
 


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