Regulation 39 Amendment of regulation 17 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure RegulationsI1I2

Regulation 17 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (intervals between periodical reviews and notice of a periodical review) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In paragraph (2), for the words “the period between the effective date of the assessment that has been reviewed” to the end there shall be substituted the words

• “the period between the effective date of the fresh assessment following the latest review carried out under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) and whichever is the later of—

  1. (aa)

     the effective date of the assessment falling within sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1); or

  2. (bb)

     the effective date of the assessment made following the review referred to in sub-paragraph (b) or (c) of paragraph (1).”.

For paragraph (6), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(6)

The provisions of paragraph (5) shall not apply in relation to—

(a)

any person to or in respect of whom income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable;

(b)

a person with care where income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to or in respect of the absent parent;

(c)

an absent parent or parent with care to whom regulation 10A of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations applies; or

(d)

a parent with care where that regulation applies to the absent parent.”.