The basic principles

Child support maintenance: supplemental provisions8

1

Where—

a

there is more than one person with care of a qualifying child; and

b

one or more, but not all, of them have parental responsibility for the child;

no application may be made for a [F1maintenance assessment] F2maintenance calculation with respect to the child by any of those persons who do not have parental responsibility for the child.

2

Where more than one application for a [F3maintenance assessment] F4maintenance calculation is made with respect to the child concerned, only one of them may be proceeded with.

3

The Department may by regulations make provision as to which of two or more applications for a [F5maintenance assessment] F6maintenance calculation with respect to the same child is to be proceeded with.