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2000 Act - sections, links to the text & dates

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990  
Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 Section 80 enables the Inland Revenue to provide details of the earnings of self-employed NRPs.
Data Protection Act 1998  
Tax Credits Act 1999  
Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 This is the Act which introduces the reformed CSA system (among other things). About half of it is about child support. It is not just about a new formula. There are official Explanatory Notes to the Child Support, Pensions And Social Security Act.
Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 This is the Northern Ireland equivalent of the above Act. It is similar as far as child support is concerned, although it refers to Northern Ireland regulations rather than Great Britain regulation, and some of the section & schedule numbers are diferent. It is not refered to below.
Tax Credits Act 2002  

Sections of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000

Sections which are not about child support are in grey

Dates in the past are in pink

Dates in the future (at 2003-02-19) are in green
 
Sections of the 2000 Act Summary Start date
    Some of these dates are heavy qualified in the Statutory Instruments that commence them.
PART I - CHILD SUPPORT
Maintenance calculations and interim and default maintenance decisions
1. Maintenance calculations and terminology.

Various, including changing:

"maintenance assessment" to "maintenance calculation"
"absent parent" to "non-resident parent"

 1(1) & (2) for relevant cases: 2003-03-03
2. Applications under section 4 of the Child Support Act 1991.   2003-03-03
3. Applications by persons claiming or receiving benefit.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
4. Default and interim maintenance decisions.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
Applications for a variation
5. Departure from usual rules for calculating maintenance.

The main regulations which control this are in:
The Child Support (Variations) Regulations 2000.

There is a discussion here about the income of NRPs' new partners.

 For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
6. Applications for a variation: further provisions. For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
7. Variations: revision and supersession. For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
Revision and supersession of decisions
8. Revision of decisions.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
9. Decisions superseding earlier decisions.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
Appeals
10. Appeals to appeal tribunals.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
11. Redetermination of appeals.   2001-02-15
Information
12. Information required by Secretary of State.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
13. Information- offences.   2001-01-31
14. Inspectors.   2001-01-31
Parentage
15. Presumption of parentage in child support cases.   2001-01-31
Disqualification from driving
16. Disqualification from driving.   2001-04-02
17. Civil imprisonment: Scotland.   2001-04-02
Financial penalties
18. Financial penalties.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
19. Reduced benefit decisions.    
Miscellaneous
20. Voluntary payments.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
21. Recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
22. Jurisdiction.   (1) to (3): 2001-01-31
For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
23. Abolition of the child maintenance bonus.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
24. Periodical reviews.   2000-07-28: (according to NickWikeley, Fam Law November 2000)
25. Regulations.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
26. Amendments.   (Qualified): 2001-01-31
27. Temporary compensation payment scheme.   2002-07-17
28. Pilot schemes.    
29. Interpretation, transitional provisions, savings, etc.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03

PART II - PENSIONS

PART III - SOCIAL SECURITY

PART IV - NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS
PART V - MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
Miscellaneous
82. Tests for determining parentage.   2001-04-01
83. Declarations of status.   2001-04-01
Supplemental
84. Expenses.    
85. Repeals.   (1): 2001-04-01
86. Commencement and transitional provisions.    
87. Short title and extent.    
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1 - Substituted Part I of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Act 1991.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
Schedule 2 - Substituted Schedules 4A and 4B to the 1991 Act.   For relevant cases: 2003-03-03
Part I - Substituted Schedule 4A.
Part II - Substituted Schedule 4B.
Schedule 3 - Amendment of enactments relating to child support.   11(2) - "absent parent" to "non-resident parent": 2001-01-31
For relevant cases: 2003-03-03

Schedule 4 - Additional pension.

Schedule 5 - Pensions: miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules.

Schedule 6 - Social security investigation powers.

Schedule 7 - Housing benefit and council tax benefit: revisions and appeals.
Schedule 8 - Declarations of status: consequential amendments. 2001-04-01
Schedule 9 - Repeals and revocations.   Parts of: 2003-03-03
Part I - Child support.

Part II - State pensions. Part III - Occupational and personal pension schemes. Part IV - War pensions. Part V - Loss of benefit. Part VI - Investigation powers. Part VII - Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. Part VIII - NICs in respect of benefits in kind.
Part IX - Tests for determining parentage and declarations of status.   2001-04-01
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