# The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Regulation 24: Effective dates of maintenance calculations

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject to regulations 25 to 28 , 28B and 30, where no maintenance calculation is in force with respect to the person with care or the non-resident parent, the effective date of a maintenance calculation following an application made under Article 7 of the Order... shall be the date determined in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) Where the application for a maintenance calculation is made under Article 7 of the Order by a non-resident parent, the effective date of the maintenance calculation shall be the date that an effective application is made or treated as made under regulation 3.
(3) Where the application for a maintenance calculation is—
(a) made under Article 7 of the Order by a person with care; ...
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
the effective date of the maintenance calculation shall be the date of notification to the non-resident parent.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, where the Department is satisfied that a non-resident parent has intentionally avoided receipt of a notice of a maintenance application it may determine the date of notification to the non-resident parent as the date on which the notification would have been given to him but for such avoidance.
(5) Where in relation to a decision made under Article 13 of the Order a maintenance calculation is made to which paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Order applies, the effective date of the calculation shall be the beginning of the maintenance period in which the change of circumstance to which the calculation relates occurred or is expected to occur.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/17/regulation/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-24
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