The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement No. 14 and Transitional Provisions) and the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 18 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2014
Article 2 of this Order brings into force section 19 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6) for all remaining purposes on 30th June 2014. Section 19 introduces Schedule 5. Schedule 5 enables the Secretary of State to require the parties in existing cases (that is, cases administered under the 1993 or 2003 schemes of child support maintenance) to choose whether or not to remain in the statutory scheme under the 2012 rules for calculating child support maintenance (“the 2012 scheme”). It enables the Secretary of State to make provision in regulations in relation to requiring the parties to make that choice.