Article 28B Preliminary consideration of applicationsF1

(1)

Where an application for a variation has been duly made to the Department, it may give it a preliminary consideration.

(2)

Where the Department does so it may, on completing the preliminary consideration, reject the application (and proceed to make its decision on the application for a maintenance calculation without any variation) if it appears to it—

(a)

that there are no grounds on which it could agree to a variation;

(b)

that it has insufficient information to make a decision on the application for the maintenance calculation under Article 13 (apart from any information needed in relation to the application for a variation), and therefore that its decision would be made under Article 14(1); or

(c)

that other prescribed circumstances apply.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 28A-28C and cross-heading substituted (22.11.2000 and 3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 5(2), 68(2); S.R. 2000/358, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. II; S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch.