Regulation 49 Amendment of Schedule 3B to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations

For paragraph 17 of Schedule 3B to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (travelling costs) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

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17

Subject to paragraph 17A, there shall be calculated, or if that is impracticable estimated, for each pair of places referred to in paragraph 16 between which straight-line distances are required to be calculated or estimated, the number of journeys which the relevant person makes between them during a period comprising a whole number of weeks which appears to the child support officer to be representative of the normal working pattern of the relevant person.

17A

For the purposes of the calculation required by paragraph 17, there shall be disregarded—

(a)

any pair of journeys between the same work place and his home where the first journey is from his work place to his home and the time which elapses between the start of the first journey and the conclusion of the second is not more than two hours; and

(b)

any journey in respect of which—

(i)

the travelling costs are borne wholly or in part by the relevant employer; or

(ii)

the relevant employer provides transport for any part of the journey for the use of the relevant person.”.