Regulation 8C Effective date of an interim maintenance assessmentF1

Except where regulation 3(5) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations (effective date of maintenance assessment where court order in force), regulation F2... 33(7) or paragraph (2) applies, the effective date of an interim maintenance assessment shall be—

F6The effective date of an interim maintenance assessment made under section 12(1)(b) of the Act shall, subject to regulation 33(7), be such date, not earlier than the first and not later than the seventh day following the date upon which that interim maintenance assessment was made, as falls on the same day of the week as the effective date of the maintenance assessment calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act which the Secretary of State is proposing to supersede with a decision under section 17 of the Act.

In cases where the effective date of an interim maintenance assessment is determined under paragraph (1)F7... where a maintenance assessment, except a maintenance assessment falling within regulation 8D(7), is made after an interim maintenance assessment has been in force, child support maintenance calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act shall be payable in respect of the period preceding that during which the interim maintenance assessment was in force.

The child support maintenance payable under the provisions of paragraph (3) shall be payable in respect of the period between the effective date of the assessment (or, where separate assessments are made for different periods under paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Act, the effective date of the assessment in respect of the earliest such period) and the effective date of the interim maintenance assessment.