The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Further amendment of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations

5.—(1) The Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 9 (exempt income: calculation or estimation of E)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted;

(ii) for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(f) where, if the parent were a claimant, the conditions in paragraph 3(1) of the relevant Schedule (income support family premium) would be satisfied in respect of a relevant child of that parent, the amount specified in head (b) of that paragraph or, where those conditions would be satisfied only by virtue of the case being one to which paragraph (2) applies, half that amount;”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(c)(iv) for “paragraph 3(b)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 3(1)(b)”.

(3) In regulation 11 (protected income)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted;

(ii) for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(f) where, if the parent were a claimant, the conditions in paragraph 3(1) of the relevant Schedule (income support family premium) would be satisfied, the amount specified in head (b) of that paragraph ;”;

(b) in paragraph (3) for “sub-paragraph (c) or (f)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (f)”.