Regulation 38 Insertion of regulation 10A into the Maintenance Assessment Procedure RegulationsI1

After regulation 10 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (notification of a new or a fresh maintenance assessment), there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Notification of increase or reduction in the amount of a maintenance assessment

10A

(1)

Where, in a case falling within paragraph (2B) of regulation 22 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (multiple applications relating to an absent parent)^f1, a child support officer has increased or reduced one or more of the other maintenance assessments referred to in that paragraph following the making of the fresh assessment referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph, he shall, so far as that is reasonably practicable, immediately notify the relevant persons in respect of whom each maintenance assessment so increased or reduced was made of—

(a)

the making of that fresh assessment;

(b)

the amount of the increase or reduction in that maintenance assessment; and

(c)

the date on which that increase or reduction shall take effect,

and the notification shall include information as to the provisions of section 18 of the Act.

(2)

Except where a person gives written permission to the Secretary of State that the information in relation to him mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) below may be conveyed to other persons, any document given or sent under the provisions of paragraph (1) shall not contain—

(a)

the address of any person other than the recipient of the document in question (other than the address of the office of the child support officer concerned) or any other information the use of which could reasonably be expected to lead to any such person being located;

(b)

any other information the use of which could reasonably be expected to lead to any person, other than a qualifying child or a relevant person, being identified.”.