Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 584

The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993

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1993 No. 584

FAMILY LAW

CHILD SUPPORT

The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in excercise of the powers conferred upon him by Section 56(3) and (4) of the Child Support Act 1991^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.

Adaptation of the Child Support Act 1991 and regulations in respect of child support
    2.—(1)  The provisions contained in the Memorandum of Arrangements set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall have effect so far as the same relate to Great Britain.

    (2)  In particular and without prejudice to paragraph (1) above any act, omission and event which has effect for the purposes of the provision of the Northern Ireland legislation specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall also have effect as an act, omission and event for the purposes of the provision of the Child Support Act 1991 specified in the corresponding paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 2 to the said Regulations; and in the provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations the references to—
 (a) "the Act" shall be construed as including references to the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991^[2];
 (b) "the Secretary of State" shall be construed as including references to the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland;
 (c) any "child support officer" shall be construed as including references to such an officer appointed by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland;
 (d) "child support maintenance" shall be construed as including references to child support maintenance within the meaning of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;
and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Alistair Burt

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

10th March 1993

[1] 1991 c. 48. Section 56(2) provides for the Secretary of State to make arrangements with the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland to secure provision for a single child support system within the United Kingdom. back

[2] S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23). back

Explanatory Note