Regulation 42 Amendment of regulation 1 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases RegulationsI1

after the definition of “day to day care” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations” means the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996^f1;”;

at the end of the definition of “employed earner” there shall be added the words “except that it shall include a person gainfully employed in Northern Ireland”;

in the definition of “occupational pension scheme”, for the words “section 66(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975” there shall be substituted the words “section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993^f2”;

at the end of the definition of “relevant week” there shall be added—

• “except that where, under paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Act, a child support officer makes separate maintenance assessments in respect of different periods in a particular case, because he is aware of one or more changes of circumstances which occurred after the date which is applicable to that case under paragraphs (a) to (f), the relevant week for the purposes of each separate maintenance assessment made to take account of each such change of circumstances, shall be the period of 7 days immediately preceding the date on which notification was given to the Secretary of State of the change of circumstances relevant to that separate maintenance assessment;”;

at the end of the definition of “self-employed earner” there shall be added the words “except that it shall include a person gainfully employed in Northern Ireland otherwise than in employed earner’s employment (whether or not he is also employed in such employment)”.