Regulation 31 Transitional provision—effective dates ...F10

a maintenance calculation in force were to a maintenance assessment in force;

a maintenance calculation having been in force were to a maintenance assessment having been in force; and

a non-resident parent in sub-paragraph (a), the first time it occurs in sub-paragraph (b) F3, in sub-paragraph (c)(iii) and the first time it occurs in sub-paragraph (d), were to an absent parent.

an effective application for a maintenance assessment has been made under the former Act (“an assessment application”); and

an effective application for a maintenance calculation is made F4... (“a calculation application”).

before the prescribed date, the application to be proceeded with shall be treated as an application for a maintenance assessment;

on or after the prescribed date, that application shall be treated as an application for a maintenance calculation and the effective date of that maintenance calculation shall be the date which would be the assessment effective date if a maintenance assessment were to be made.

an application for a maintenance assessment was made before the prescribed date; and

the assessment effective date of that application would be on or after the prescribed date,

• "2000 Act" means the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000;

• F7“absent parent” has the meaning given in section 3(2) of the former Act;

• “assessment effective date” means the effective date of the maintenance assessment under regulation 30 or 33(7) of the Assessment Procedure Regulations or regulation 3(5), (7) or (8) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations, whichever applied to the maintenance assessment in question or would have applied had the effective date not been determined under regulation 8C or 30A of the Assessment Procedure Regulations;

• “Assessment Procedure Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992^f1;

• “commencement date” means with respect to a particular case the date these Regulations come into force with respect to that type of case;

• “former Act” means the Act before its amendment by the 2000 Act;

• “Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) Regulations 1992^f2;

• “maintenance assessment” has the meaning given in the former Act; and

• “prescribed date” means the date prescribed for the purposes of section 4(10)(a) of the Act; F8and

• “relevant date” means the date which would be the assessment effective date of the application which is to be proceeded with in accordance with Schedule 3, if a maintenance assessment were to be made.

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in the application of the Assessment Procedure Regulations for the purposes of paragraph (4) where, on or after the prescribed date, no maintenance enquiry form, as defined in those Regulations, is given or sent to the absent parent, the Regulations shall be applied as if references in regulation 30—

in the application of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations for the purposes of paragraph (4), where, on or after the prescribed date no maintenance enquiry form, as defined in the Assessment Procedure Regulations, is given or sent to the absent parent, regulation 3(8) shall be applied as if the reference to the date when the maintenance enquiry form was given or sent were a reference to the date of notification to the non-resident parent.