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  • Closed consultation Consultation on Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement (Administrative Liability Orders)

    Topics:
    • Support for children, 
    • Child support legislation

    Consultation closed Consultation opened 8 July 2024, 9.00 am and closed 29 September 2024, 5.00 pm

    Summary

    The consultation is to inform the Government's proposed changes to Child Maintenance Regulations.

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    • Consultation on Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement (Administrative Liability Orders) Adobe PDF (225 KB)

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    Consultation description

    This consultation sets out the Department for Communities’ plans to implement existing powers that allow the Child Maintenance Service to make an administrative liability order against a person who has failed to pay child maintenance and is in arrears. A liability order is legal recognition of the debt and is required before the Child Maintenance Service can take certain enforcement actions against non-compliant parents to enforce those arrears.

    This consultation is seeking views from anyone who could be affected by the implementation of the power to make administrative liability orders.

    The Bill as introduced, and the Explanatory and Financial Memorandum as introduced are both available via the NI Assembly website.

    Ways to respond

    Consultation closed — responses are no longer being accepted.

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