Regulation 41 Estimate of current income where insufficient information availableI1

Where—

the Department may estimate that income and, in doing so, may make any assumption as to any fact.

Where the Department is satisfied that the non-resident parent is engaged in a particular occupation, whether as an employee, office-holder or a self-employed person, the assumptions referred to in paragraph (1) may include an assumption that the non-resident parent has the average weekly income of a person engaged in that occupation in the UK or in any part of the UK.