ABSTRACT
Biggin v Secretary of State for Social Security (1995) The Child Support Agency had issued a deduction of earnings order against B concerning two sons from his previous marriage. The magistrates had dismissed B’s complaint. B’s argument rested upon his belief that the Agency had not taken into account the welfare of the children as required by s 2 of the 1991 Act. B then appealed by way of case stated. That appeal concerned the construing of the term ‘defective’ which appeared in the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992, reg 22(3). The regulation allows an appeal to be made where an order for deduction of earnings is defective. B argued that it was essential that the word be construed in a wide sense.
