# The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, Article 28B: Preliminary consideration of applications


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/28B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-28B
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