Regulation 25 Substitution of regulation 18 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations

For regulation 18 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (review under section 17 treated as review under section 16), there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“ Review under section 16 of the Act to be substituted for review under section 17 of the Act

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Where after 22nd January 1996 a child support officer considers that he is likely to be required under section 17(3) of the Act to make one or more fresh maintenance assessments if he conducts a review under that section and the application for that review was received by the Secretary of State not earlier than 8 weeks prior to the date upon which the next review of the maintenance assessment in force is due under the provisions of section 16 of the Act, the child support officer shall carry out a review under section 16 of the Act instead of the review under section 17 of the Act for which application has been made.”.