Child Support Act 1995

11 Reviews: interim maintenance assessments

In section 12 of the 1991 Act (interim maintenance assessments), for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) This section applies where a child support officer—

(a) is required to make a maintenance assessment;

(b) is proposing to conduct a review under section 16, 17, 18 or 19; or

(c) is conducting such a review.

(1A) If it appears to the child support officer that he does not have sufficient information to enable him—

(a) in a case falling within subsection (1)(a), to make the assessment,

(b) in a case falling within subsection (1)(b), to conduct the proposed review, or

(c) in a case falling within subsection (1)(c), to complete the review,

he may make an interim maintenance assessment.”