The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993

Amendment of regulation 19 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations

8.—(1) Regulation 19 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2), for the words “paragraphs (3) and (4), and except where the circumstances set out in regulation 17(7) apply” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3), (4) and (4A)”.

(3) After paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“(4A) The provisions of paragraph (2) shall not apply in relation to a relevant person where–

(a) the case is one prescribed in regulation 22 or 23 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations as a case to be treated as a special case for the purposes of the Act;

(b) there has been a review under section 16 or 17 of the Act in relation to another maintenance assessment in force relating to that person;

(c) the child support officer concerned has notified that person of the assessments following that review not earlier than 13 weeks prior to the date the child support officer gives notice under paragraph (1); and

(d) the child support officer has no reason to believe that there has been a change in that person’s circumstances.”.