The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004

Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000

6.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 29(1) (effective dates of maintenance calculations in specified cases), after sub-paragraph (c) add—

“(d) except where the parent with care has made a request under section 6(5) of the Act, where on the date the application is made, or treated as made under regulation 3, there is in force a maintenance calculation in relation to the same non-resident parent and a different person with care, and the maintenance calculation in force when the application was made has ceased to have effect before a decision has been made in respect of that application, the effective date of the maintenance calculation made in response to the application shall be—

(i) where the date of notification to the non-resident parent is before the date on which the maintenance calculation in force has ceased to have effect, the day following the day on which that maintenance calculation ceases to have effect;

(ii) where the date of notification to the non-resident parent is after the date on which the maintenance calculation in force has ceased to have effect, the date of notification to the non-resident parent.”.

(3) In regulation 31(1)(c) (transitional provision – effective dates and reduced benefit decisions) for “and in sub-paragraph (c)(iii)” substitute “, in sub-paragraph (c)(iii) and the first time it occurs in sub-paragraph (d)”.

(1)

S.I. 2001/157, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2002/1204 and S.I. 2003/328.