Regulation 20 Amendment of regulation 3 of the Fees Regulations

Regulation 3 of the Fees Regulations (liability to pay fees) M1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In paragraph (1), for the words “paragraphs (4) and (5)” there shall be substituted the words “ paragraphs (3A) to (5) ”.

After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3A)

No person shall be liable to pay an assessment fee or a collection fee which would otherwise become payable on or after 18th April 1995 and before 6th April 1997, and for the purposes of this paragraph a fee becomes payable—

(a)

in the case of a collection fee, upon the date upon which the Secretary of State arranges for the collection of, and enforcement of the obligation to pay, child support maintenance in accordance with the assessment or the anniversary of the date upon which he so arranges;

(b)

in the case of an assessment fee upon the date upon which the maintenance assessment in the case in question is made, or the anniversary thereof.”.