Article 17 Amendment of the Child Support (Compensation for Recipients of Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance) Regulations

In regulation 5 of the Child Support (Compensation for Recipients of Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995^f1 (calculation of compensation in particular cases) for paragraphs (1) to (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(1)

Where a revised assessment is replaced by a fresh maintenance assessment of a different amount by virtue of a revision under Article 18 of the Order of 1991, the compensation payment calculated under Article 17 of the 1995 Order shall be recalculated using the amount due under the fresh maintenance assessment in place of the amount due under the revised assessment.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), where the earlier assessment is replaced by a fresh assessment—

(a)

which was made after the revised assessment, and

(b)

the effective date of that fresh assessment is before the date on which the revised assessment was made,

the amount payable under the fresh assessment shall be ignored for the purposes of the calculation of a compensation payment under Article 17 of the 1995 Order.

(3)

In a case where the circumstances in paragraphs (1) and (2) apply the compensation payable under Article 17 of the 1995 Order shall be recalculated using the amount due under the fresh assessments referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2).”.