Regulation 10 Amendment of regulation 31 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations

For paragraph (1) of regulation 31 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (effective dates following a review under section 16 or 17 of that Act), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), where a fresh maintenance assessment is made following a review under section 16 of the Act, the effective date of that assessment shall be 104 weeks after the effective date of the previous assessment disregarding—

(a)

any previous assessment made following a review under section 17 of the Act, where, after 22nd January 1996, a child support officer decided, in accordance with section 17(3) of the Act, to proceed with a review;

(b)

any previous assessment made following a review under section 18 or 19 of the Act;

(c)

any interim maintenance assessment made under section 12(1A)(b) or (c) of the Act, except a Category B interim maintenance assessment made under paragraph (b) or (c) of that section where that interim maintenance assessment is the assessment being reviewed under section 16 of the Act.”