9.—(1) The Secretary of State may determine the form in which an application for a maintenance calculation is to be made and may require the applicant to provide such information or evidence as the Secretary of State reasonably requires in order to process the application (including, in the case of an application by a person with care, information sufficient to enable the person named as the non-resident parent to be identified).
(2) The application is to be taken to have been made when the application has been submitted to the Secretary of State in the required form and the information required under paragraph (1) has been provided.