The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

   2. 2. Documents

3. PART II APPLICATIONS FOR A MAINTENANCE CALCULATION

   1. 3. Applications under section 4 or 7 of the Act

   2. 4. Multiple applications

   3. 5. Notice of an application for a maintenance calculation

   4. 6. Death of a qualifying child

4. PART III DEFAULT MAINTENANCE DECISIONS

   1. 7. Default rate

5. PART IV REDUCED BENEFIT DECISIONS

   1. 8. Interpretation of Part IV

   2. 9. Period within which reasons are to be given

   3. 10. Circumstances in which a reduced benefit decision shall not be given

   4. 11. Amount of and period of reduction of relevant benefit under a reduced benefit decision

   5. 12. Modification of reduction under a reduced benefit decision to preserve minimum entitlement to relevant benefit

   6. 13. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision when relevant benefit ceases to be payable

   7. 14. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision when a modified applicable amount is payable (income support)

   8. 15. Suspension of a reduced benefit decision when a modified applicable amount is payable (income-based jobseeker’s allowance)

   9. 16. Termination of a reduced benefit decision

   10. 17. Reduced benefit decisions where there is an additional qualifying child

   11. 18. Suspension and termination of a reduced benefit decision where the sole qualifying child ceases to be a child or where the parent concerned ceases to be a person with care

   12. 19. Notice of termination of a reduced benefit decision

   13. 20. Rounding provisions

6. PART V MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   1. 21. Persons who are not persons with care

   2. 22. Authorisation of representative

7. PART VI NOTIFICATIONS FOLLOWING CERTAIN DECISIONS

   1. 23. Notification of a maintenance calculation

   2. 24. Notification when an applicant under section 7 of the Act ceases to be a child

8. PART VII EFFECTIVE DATES OF MAINTENANCE CALCULATIONS

   1. 25. Effective dates of maintenance calculations

   2. 26. Effective dates of maintenance calculations—maintenance order and application under section 4 or 7

   3. 27. Effective dates of maintenance calculations—maintenance order and application under section 6

   4. 28. Effective dates of maintenance calculations—maintenance order ceases

   5. 29. Effective dates of maintenance calculations in specified cases

9. PART VIII REVOCATION, SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   1. 30. Revocation and savings

   2. 31. Transitional provision—effective dates and reduced benefit decisions

10. Signature

11. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

       Meaning of “child” for the purposes of the Act

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Multiple applications

12. Explanatory Note