SCHEDULE 2 AMOUNTS TO BE DISREGARDED WHEN CALCULATING OR ESTIMATING N and M

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Any payment made to a person in respect of an adopted child who is a member of his family that is made in accordance with any regulations made under section 57A or pursuant to section 57A(6) of the Adoption Act 1976 M1 (permitted allowances) F4or paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or, as the case may be, F3section 51A of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 M2 (schemes for the payment of allowances to adopters) F5or in accordance with an adoption allowance scheme made under section 71 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (adoption allowances schemes)

a

where the child is not a child in respect of whom child support maintenance is being assessed, to the extent that it exceeds F1the aggregate of the amounts to be taken into account in the calculation of E under regulation 9(1)(g), reduced, as the case may be, under regulation 9(4);

b

in any other case, to the extent that it does not exceed the amount of the income of a child which is treated as that of his parent by virtue of Part IV F2of Schedule 1.