[F1VariationsU.K.

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 28A-28C substituted for ss. 28A-28C (10.11.2000 for specified purposes, 3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), ss. 5(2), 86(1)(a)(2) (with ss. 28, 83(6)); S.I. 2000/2994, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch.

28A Application for variation of usual rules for calculating maintenance.U.K.

(1)Where an application for a maintenance calculation is made under section 4 or 7 F2... the person with care or the non-resident parent or (in the case of an application under section 7) either of them or the child concerned may apply to the [F3Secretary of State] for the rules by which the calculation is made to be varied in accordance with this Act.

(2)Such an application is referred to in this Act as an “application for a variation”.

(3)An application for a variation may be made at any time before the [F4Secretary of State] has reached a decision (under section 11 or 12(1)) on the application for a maintenance calculation F5... .

(4)A person who applies for a variation—

(a)need not make the application in writing unless the [F6Secretary of State] directs in any case that he must; and

(b)must say upon what grounds the application is made.

(5)In other respects an application for a variation is to be made in such manner as may be prescribed.

(6)Schedule 4A has effect in relation to applications for a variation.]