Projet de loi modifiant l'article 69 des lois relatives aux allocations familiales pour travailleurs salariés, coordonnées le 19 décembre 1939.
General information ¶
- Authors
- PS | SP André Frédéric, Thierry Giet
- Submission date
- March 16, 2000
- Official page
- Visit
- Status
- Adopted
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- family benefit
Voting ¶
- Voted to adopt
- Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP Open Vld N-VA MR FN VB
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Discussion ¶
March 22, 2001 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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Rapporteur Pierrette Cahay-André ⚙
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Ministers, Mr. Colleagues, the Social Affairs Committee has examined this bill on family allowances for wage workers, submitted by Mr. Giet and Frédéric, 8 March 2001.
This proposal concerns the joint exercise of parental responsibility when the parents do not live together. In general, except for special circumstances that I will not list here, family allowances are paid in full to the mother. However, they may be paid, at his request, to the father if the proof is made by registration in the national register of natural persons that the father and the child have the same residence. In the absence of agreement, parents may request the labour court to designate the allocator.
The proposed text aims at supplementing Article 69, §1er, paragraph 3, of the Coordinated Laws, specifying that the appointment of the allocator by the labour court must take into account the best interests of the child. This modification may seem superfluous since the text currently written allows to ⁇ this goal, but it is also not superfluous to bring this precision that, in the essence, does not change anything to the law.
The amendment proposed by Mr. Giet wants to encounter interpretation problems raised by some labour magistrates. After a few exchanges of views and some clarifications made, the text was adopted unanimously by the members present in our committee.
Thierry Giet PS | SP ⚙
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank Mrs. Cahay for her report, in which she clearly specified the subject of the bill.
It is clear that this is a small bill but it has the merit of softening the sometimes “blind” application of a law text by specifying – which is not unnecessary – that it must be done in the best interest of the child.