Regulation 6 Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000

(1)

The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2)

In regulation 4(1) (flat rate)—

(a)

after sub-paragraphs (d) and (e), omit “and”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (f), add—

“; and

(g)
a payment under a scheme mentioned in section 1(2) of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004^f2 (compensation schemes for armed and reserve forces).”.

(3)

In regulation 5 (nil rate)—

(a)

after paragraph (gg), insert “or”;

(b)

after paragraph (h), omit “; or”.

(4)

In regulation 11 (non-resident parent liable to pay maintenance under a maintenance order), in paragraph (1), for the words after “pay maintenance” substitute—

“for that child—

(i)
under a maintenance order;

(ii)
in accordance with the terms of an order made by a court outside Great Britain; or

(iii)
under the legislation of a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom,

that case shall be treated as a special case for the purpose of the Act.”;

(5)

In paragraph 7(4)(a) of the Schedule (net weekly income) for “equivalent to any personal allowance” substitute “calculated as if it were equivalent to any personal allowance which would be”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2001/155. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2002/2497, S.I. 2002/3019, S.I. 2003/1195, S.I. 2003/2779 and S.I. 2004/2415.
f2: 2004 c. 32.