Welfare Reform Act 2009

54 Payments of child support maintenance

(1) Section 29 of the Child Support Act 1991 (collection of child support maintenance) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) (provision which may be made by regulations for payment of child support maintenance), for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) for determining, on the basis of prescribed assumptions, the total amount of the payments of child support maintenance payable in a reference period (including provision for adjustments to such an amount);

(ca) requiring payments of child support maintenance to be made—

(i) by reference to such an amount and a reference period; and

(ii) at prescribed intervals falling in a reference period;”.

(3) After that subsection insert—

“(3A) In subsection (3)(c) and (ca) “a reference period” means—

(a) a period of 52 weeks beginning with a prescribed date; or

(b) in prescribed circumstances, a prescribed period.”