The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996

Departure directions and interim maintenance assessments

10.—(1) For the purposes of section 28A(1) of the Act, the term “maintenance assessment” does not include—

(a) a Category A or Category C interim maintenance assessment;

(b) a Category B interim maintenance assessment where the application is made under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4B to the Act in respect of expenses prescribed by regulation 18 and that Category B interim maintenance assessment was made because the applicant fell within paragraph (3)(b) of regulation 8 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations(1);

(c) a Category D interim maintenance assessment, where the application is made under paragraph 3 or 4 of Schedule 4B to the Act or by an absent parent under paragraph 2 or 5 of that Schedule.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, Category A, Category B, Category C and Category D interim maintenance assessments are defined in regulation 8(3) of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (categories of interim maintenance assessment).

(1)

S.I. 1992/1813. Regulation 8 was substituted by S.I. 1995/3261.