Part I

Child Support

Maintenance calculations and interim and default maintenance decisions

Default and interim maintenance decisions.
4
For section 12 of the 1991 Act (interim maintenance assessments) there shall be substituted—

Default and interim maintenance decisions.
12
1
Where the Secretary of State—
a
is required to make a maintenance calculation; or
b
is proposing to make a decision under section 16 or 17,
and it appears to him that he does not have sufficient information to enable him to do so, he may make a default maintenance decision.
2
Where an application for a variation has been made under section 28A(1) in connection with an application for a maintenance calculation (or in connection with such an application which is treated as having been made), the Secretary of State may make an interim maintenance decision.
3
The amount of child support maintenance fixed by an interim maintenance decision shall be determined in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1.
4
The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision as to default and interim maintenance decisions.
5
The regulations may, in particular, make provision as to—
a
the procedure to be followed in making a default or an interim maintenance decision; and
b
a default rate of child support maintenance to apply where a default maintenance decision is made.
S. 4 partly in force; s. 4 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 86(2); s. 4 in force for certain purposes at 10.11.2000 by S.I. 2000/2994, art. 2: s. 4 in force for certain further purposes at 3.3.2003 by S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch.