Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

[AS AMENDED IN GRAND COMMITTEE]

Contents
Part 1
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
1
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
2
Objectives of the Commission
3
Functions of the Commission: general
4
Promotion of child maintenance
5
Provision of information and guidance
6
Fees
7
Agency arrangements and provision of services
8
Contracting out
9
Annual report to Secretary of State
10
Directions and guidance
11
Review of the status of the Commission
12
Supplementary provisions
Part 2
Transfer of child support functions etc. to the Commission
13
Transfer of child support functions
14
Transfer of property, rights and liabilities
Part 3
Child support etc.
Removal of compulsion for benefit claimants
15
Repeal of sections 6 and 46
Maintenance calculations
16
Changes to the calculation of maintenance
17
Power to regulate supersession
18
Determination of applications for a variation
19
Transfer of cases to new rules

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Collection and enforcement
20
Use of deduction from earnings orders as basic method of payment
21
Deduction from earnings orders: the liable person’s earnings
22
Orders for regular deductions from accounts
23
Lump sum deduction orders
24
Orders preventing avoidance
25
Administrative liability orders
26
Enforcement in county courts
27
Disqualification for holding or obtaining travel authorisation
28
Curfew orders
29
Commitment to prison
30
Disqualification for driving
Debt management powers
31
Power to treat liability as satisfied
32
Power to accept part payment of arrears in full and final satisfaction
33
Power to write off arrears
34
Transfer of arrears
Miscellaneous
35
Registered Maintenance Agreements: Scotland
36
Offence of failing to notify change of address
37
Additional special case
38
Recovery of arrears from deceased’s estate
39
Disclosure of information relating to family proceedings
40
Disclosure of information to credit reference agencies
41
Pilot schemes
42
Meaning of “child”
43
Extinction of liability in respect of interest and fees
44
Use of information
45
Liable relative provisions: exclusion of parental duty to maintain
Part 4
Lump sum payments: mesothelioma etc.
Mesothelioma lump sum payments
46
Lump sum payments
47
Conditions of entitlement
48
Determination of claims
49
Reconsideration
50
Appeal to appeal tribunal
51
Appeal to Social Security Commissioner
52
Minors and people who lack capacity
53
Regulations: Part 4
Recovery of mesothelioma and other lump sum payments
54
Amendment of Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997

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Part 5
General
55
Regulations: general
56
General interpretation
57
Minor and consequential amendments
58
Repeals
59
Transition
60
Financial provisions
61
Extent
62
Commencement
63
Citation
Schedule 1   —
The Commission
Schedule 2   —
Transfer of functions under subordinate legislation
Schedule 3   —
Transfer of child support functions
Part 1   —
Consequential amendments
Part 2   —
Transitional provision and savings
Schedule 4   —
Changes to the calculation of maintenance
Schedule 5   —
Maintenance calculations: transfer of cases to new rules
Schedule 6   —
Use of information
Schedule 7   —
Minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 8   —
Repeals

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Revised 22 February 2008