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Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992
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41.—(1) The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992() are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—
(a)after the definition of “clinical commissioning group” insert—
““contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an allowance under the Jobseekers Act as amended by the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 that remove references to an income-based allowance, and a contribution-based allowance under the Jobseekers Act as that Act has effect apart from those provisions;”; and
(b)after the definition of “training allowance”, insert—
““universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;”.
(3) After regulation 10B (Assessable income : state pension credit paid to or in respect of a parent with care or an absent parent)() insert—
“Assessable income : universal credit paid to or in respect of the parent concerned
10C.—(1) The circumstances prescribed for the purpose of the reference to universal credit in sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Act 1991 (as that paragraph has effect apart from section 1 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000)() are where the universal credit that is paid to or in respect of the parent concerned is calculated on the basis that the parent has no earned income.
(2) In paragraph (1), “earned income” has the meaning given in regulation 52 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.”.
(4) In Schedule 2, after paragraph 7 (amounts to be disregarded when calculating or estimating N and M) insert—
“7A Any payment of universal credit.”.
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