The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1991 No. 2628 — creates 3 criminal offences.
- Made
- 19 November 1991
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Child Support Act 1991, Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to those of the provisions of the Child Support Act 1991, other than provisions which relate to the appointment of Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland. The Order makes provision for Northern Ireland with regard to the assessment, collection and enforcement of periodical maintenance payable by certain parents with respe0ct to children of theirs who are not in their care. The Order— a makes provision with respect to the duty of each parent to maintain a qualifying child within the meaning of the Order; b introduces a new method of assessing child support maintenance by a non-discretionary formula; and c empowers the Department of Health and Social Services to trace absent parents, to assess child support maintenance and to collect and enforce child support maintenance and certain other kinds of maintenance.
Offences created by this instrument
- Powers of inspectors article 17(9) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Regulations about deduction from earnings orders article 32(8) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Unauthorised disclosure of information article 46(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1991