The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012

Thresholds

68.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the costs or repayments referred to in regulations 63 (contact costs) and 65 to 67 (prior debts, boarding school fees and payments in respect of certain mortgages etc.) are to be special expenses for the purposes of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4B to the 1991 Act only where they are equal to or exceed the threshold amount of £10 per week.

(2) Where the expenses fall within more than one description of expense referred to in paragraph (1), the threshold amount applies separately in respect of each description.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where the Secretary of State considers any expenses referred to in this Chapter to be unreasonably high or to have been unreasonably incurred the Secretary of State may substitute such lower amount as the Secretary of State considers to be reasonable, including an amount which is below the threshold amount or a nil amount.

(4) Any lower amount substituted by the Secretary of State under paragraph (3) in relation to contact costs under regulation 63 (contact costs) must not be so low as to make it impossible, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, for contact between the non-resident parent and the qualifying child to be maintained at the frequency specified in any court order made in respect of the non-resident parent and that child where the non-resident parent is maintaining contact at that frequency.