The Draft Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) (Amendments) Regulations 2012
Start date 23 April 2012
End date 4 June 2012
Following the consultation on the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, the provisions were merged with the Child Support (New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012. These merged regulations will be known as the Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012. This decision does not alter the content of the consultation on the changes to deduction from earnings orders.
The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (“the Regulations”) amend Part 3 of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992, which governs the making of deduction from earnings orders (“DEO”). The regulations also make some consequential amendments to other elements of child maintenance legislation.
Government response
We published the Government response to this consultation on 8 November 2012.
Impact Assessment
The Impact Assessment for these Regulations was completed on 29 September 2012.
- Impact assessment – The Draft Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) (Amendments) Regulations 2012 (legislation.gov.uk)
Equality Analysis
We published this Equality Analysis on 8 November 2012.
The consultation
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission published this consultation on 23 April 2012.
More information
This consultation was originally published by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (“the Commission”). The Commission was the Government body responsible for the child maintenance system and was established through the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008. The Commission was abolished on the 31 July 2012 and subsumed into the Department for Work and Pensions (“the Department”) as “Child Maintenance Group”. The Child Support Agency now functions as one of the operational arms of the DWP providing the Government’s statutory maintenance service.
