Administrative Liability Orders

Under new measures due to be introduced under Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, there will be an Administrative Liability Order option which allows the Commission to legalise the debt without the need to apply to courts.  With a system that has such an appalling history of inefficiency, to allow the Commission to pursue recovery of a debt that is determined as being accurate only by a CMEC officer is highly objectional.   We believe the Commission has to prove to the public that the system is one to rely upon before being given such powers.

We then confirmed that it is the intention of the Commission to use the Administrative Liability Orders to pursue debt that is currently time barred in court.

The Administrative LO was due to be introduced in April 2009, but we have received confirmation from CSA DIrectorate that they are not yet to rely on Admin LO's and will continue to use the courts to secure the liability order for the time being.   We applaud this decision