The Child Support and Income Support (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Amendment of Schedule 5 to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations

59.—(1) Schedule 5 to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) For paragraph 2, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“2.   A relevant decision may be reviewed by a child support officer, either on application by a relevant person or of his own motion—

(a) if it appears to him that the absent parent has at some time after that decision was given satisfied the conditions prescribed by regulation 28(1) or, as the case may be, no longer satisfies those conditions; or

(b) if it appears to him that the relevant decision was wrong in law or was made in ignorance of, or based on a mistake as to, a material fact.”.

(3) In paragraph 3, after the word “decision” there shall be inserted the words “made on or before 18th April 1994” and for the word “when” there shall be substituted the word “after”.

(4) After paragraph 3, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“3A.   A relevant decision made after 18th April 1994 shall be reviewed by a child support officer after it has been in force for 104 weeks.”.