12 Interim maintenance assessments.E+W+S
[F1(1)Where the Secretary of State—
(a)is required to make a maintenance assessment; or
(b)is proposing to make a decision under section 16 or 17,
and (in either case) it appears to him that he does not have sufficient information to enable him to do so, he may make an interim maintenance assessment.]
(2)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision as to interim maintenance assessments.
(3)The regulations may, in particular, make provision as to—
(a)the procedure to be followed in making an interim maintenance assessment; and
(b)the basis on which the amount of child support maintenance fixed by an interim assessment is to be calculated.
(4)Before making any interim assessment [F2the Secretary of State] shall, if it is reasonably practicable to do so, give written notice of his intention to make such an assessment to—
(a)the absent parent concerned;
(b)the person with care concerned; and
(c)where the application for a maintenance assessment was made under section 7, the child concerned.
(5)Where [F2the Secretary of State] serves notice under subsection (4), he shall not make the proposed interim assessment before the end of such period as may be prescribed.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 12(1) substituted for s. 12(1)(1A) (1.6.1999) by Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14), s. 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 25(1); S.I. 1999/1510, art. 2(g)(iii)
F2Words in s. 12(4)(5) substituted (1.6.1999) by Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14), s. 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 25(2); S.I. 1999/1510, art. 2(g)(iii)
Commencement Information
I1S. 12 wholly in force; s. 12 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 58(2); s. 12(2)(3)(5) in force at 17.6.1992 by S.I. 1992/1431, art. 2, Sch.; s. 12 in force in so far as not already in force at 5.4.1993 by S.I. 1992/2644, art. 2