# The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992, Regulation 30A: Effective dates of new maintenance assessments in particular cases


(1) Subject to regulation 33(7), where a new maintenance assessment is made in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act following an interim maintenance assessment which has ceased to have effect in the circumstances set out in regulation 8D(6), the effective date of that maintenance assessment shall be the date upon which that interim maintenance assessment ceased to have effect in accordance with that regulation.
(2) Where the Secretary of State receives the information or evidence to enable him to make a maintenance assessment, calculated in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act, for the period from the date set by regulation 3(7) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations or regulation 30(2)(a) or (b), as the case may be, to the effective date of the maintenance assessment referred to in paragraph (1), the maintenance assessment first referred to in this paragraph shall, subject to regulation 33(7), have effect for that period.
(3) The effective date of a new maintenance assessment made in respect of a person with care and an absent parent shall, where the circumstances set out in paragraph (4) apply, be the first day of the first maintenance period after the Secretary of State has received the information or evidence referred to in paragraph (4)(c) or 13th January 1997, whichever is the later.
(4) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (3) are where—
(a) paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to that person with care and that absent parent;
(b) no maintenance assessment made in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act is in force in relation to that person with care and that absent parent; and
(c) on or after 13th January 1997, the Secretary of State has sufficient information or evidence to enable him to make a new maintenance assessment, calculated in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act, in relation to that person with care and that absent parent but in respect only of a period beginning after the effective date applicable in their case by virtue of regulation 30(2).
(5) Where the information or evidence referred to in paragraph (3) is that there has been an award of income support, state pension credit, an income-based jobseeker's allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance, the Secretary of State shall be treated as having received the information or evidence which enables him to make the assessment referred to in that paragraph on the first day in respect of which income support, an income-based jobseeker's allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance was payable under that award.
(6) Where, in a case falling within paragraph (3), the Secretary of State receives the information or evidence to enable him to make a maintenance assessment calculated in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act, for the period from the effective date applicable to that case under regulation 30(2)(a) or (b), as the case may be, to the effective date of the assessment referred to in paragraph (3), the maintenance assessment first referred to in this paragraph shall have effect for that period.
(7) Paragraphs (3) to (6) shall not apply where a case falls within regulation 33(7), or regulation 3 of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations (relationship between maintenance assessments and certain court orders).
(8) The effective date of a new maintenance assessment, where the circumstances set out in paragraph (9) apply, shall be—
(a) on, or on one of the 6 days immediately following, the effective date as it would have been but for this paragraph; and
(b) on the same day of the week as the day on which the maintenance period in respect of the previous maintenance assessment, as defined in paragraph 9(b), began.
(9) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (8) are where—
(a) a maintenance assessment (“the previous maintenance assessment”) has been in force in relation to the absent parent, whether or not in respect of the same parent with care; and
(b) the previous maintenance assessment is no longer in force when the decision as to the maintenance assessment is made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1813/regulation/30A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992/regulation-30A
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