Regulation 12 Amendment of regulation 4 of the Collection and Enforcement Regulations

For paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of the Collection and Enforcement Regulations (interval of payment) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2)

In specifying the day and interval of payment the Secretary of State shall have regard to the following factors—

(a)

the circumstances of the person liable to make the payments and in particular the day upon which and the interval at which any income is payable to that person;

(b)

any preference indicated by that person;

(c)

any period necessary to enable the clearance of cheques or otherwise necessary to enable the transmission of payments to the person entitled to receive them,

and, subject to those factors, to any other matter which appears to him to be relevant in the particular circumstances of the case.”