Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (2008 c. 10 (N.I.))
- Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (2008 c. 10 (N.I.))
- PART 1 ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT
- 1 Promotion of child maintenance
- 2 Provision of information and guidance
- 3 Fees
- 4 Agency arrangements and provision of services
- 5 Contracting out
- 6 Supplementary provisions
- PART 2 CHILD SUPPORT ETC.
- Removal of compulsion for benefit claimants
- 7 Repeal of Articles 9 and 43
- Maintenance calculations
- 8 Changes to the calculation of maintenance
- 9 Power to regulate supersession
- 10 Determination of applications for a variation
- 11 Transfer of cases to new rules
- Collection and enforcement
- 12 Use of deduction from earnings orders as basic method of payment
- 13 Deduction from earnings orders: the liable person's earnings
- 14 Orders for regular deductions from accounts
- 15 Lump sum deduction orders
- 16 Orders preventing avoidance
- 17 Administrative liability orders
- 18 Disqualification for holding or obtaining travel authorisation
- 19 Curfew orders
- 20 Commitment to prison
- 21 Disqualification for driving
- Debt management powers
- 22 Power to treat liability as satisfied
- 23 Power to accept part payment of arrears in full and final satisfaction
- 24 Power to write off arrears
- 25 Transfer of arrears
- Miscellaneous
- 26 Meaning of “child”
- 27 Offence of failing to notify change of address
- 28 Additional special case
- 29 Recovery of arrears from deceased's estate
- 30 Disclosure of information relating to family proceedings
- 31 Disclosure of information to credit reference agencies
- 32 Pilot schemes
- 33 Extinction of liability in respect of interest and fees
- 34 Use of information
- 35 Liable relative provisions: exclusion of parental duty to maintain
- PART 3 GENERAL
- 36 Regulations: general
- 37 General interpretation
- 38 Minor and consequential amendments
- 39 Repeals
- 40 Transition
- 41 Commencement
- 42 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF MAINTENANCE
- Introductory
- Calculation by reference to gross weekly income
- Change to basic rate
- Increase in flat rate and minimum amounts of liability
- Applicable rate where non-resident parent party to other maintenance arrangement
- Shared care
- Weekly income
- SCHEDULE 2 MAINTENANCE CALCULATIONS: TRANSFER OF CASES TO NEW RULES
- Power to require a decision about whether to stay in the statutory scheme
- Effect on accrual of liability of exercise of power under paragraph 1.
- Additional powers
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 3 USE OF INFORMATION
- SCHEDULE 4 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
- The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (NI 23)
- The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)
- The Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 11)
- SCHEDULE 5 REPEALS
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