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Version date: 21 July 2010 - onwards

3. Normal residence of qualified child - amendments.

(1) Section 3 (as amended by section 37 of and Schedule 7 to the Act of 2006) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following subsection for subsection (5):

"(5) For the purposes of determining the person with whom a qualified child normally resides -

(a) such determination, other than such determination for the purposes of Part 4, shall be made in accordance with section 296A and regulations made under that section, and

(b) such determination for the purposes of Part 4, shall be made in accordance with section 220 and regulations made under that section.".

(2) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 296:

"Normal residence of qualified child.

296A.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, other than Part 4, a qualified child may be regarded as normally residing with more than one person.

(2) The Minister may make regulations for determining the person or persons, referred to in subsection (3), with whom a qualified child shall be regarded as normally residing.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) a qualified child may be regarded as normally residing with -