24.—(1) Section 28B (as substituted by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000) (preliminary consideration of applications) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State” and for the first “it” substitute “the Secretary of State”.
(3) In subsection (2)—
(a)for the words from “Where” to “completing the” substitute “The Secretary of State may on completing such a”;
(b)for “its” substitute “a”;
(c)for the second “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”;
(d)in paragraph (a), for “it could agree to a variation” substitute “a variation could be agreed to”; and
(e)in paragraph (b), for “it” substitute “the Secretary of State” and for “its” substitute “the Secretary of State’s”.