Regulation 5 Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000

After regulation 29 of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000^f1 (effective dates of maintenance calculations in specified cases) insert—

“Interim effective date where regulation 25, 28 or 29 applies

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(1)

Where the Secretary of State has sufficient information to enable him to make a maintenance calculation, but only in respect of a period beginning after the date which would have been the effective date under regulation 25, 28 or 29 (“the original effective date”), the effective date of that calculation (“the interim effective date”) shall, instead, be the first day of the maintenance period after the Secretary of State receives that information.

(2)

Where the information referred to in paragraph (1) is that the non-resident parent or his partner has been awarded any benefit, pension or allowance prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act^f2 (flat rate), the Secretary of State shall be treated as having received the information on the first day in respect of which that benefit, pension or allowance was payable under that award.

(3)

If the Secretary of State subsequently receives sufficient information to enable him to make a maintenance calculation for the period from the original effective date to the interim effective date, that calculation shall have effect for that period.”.