Part I Child Support

Applications for a variation

I17 Variations: revision and supersession.

For section 28G of the 1991 Act (effect and duration of departure directions) there shall be substituted—

28G Variations: revision and supersession.

1

An application for a variation may also be made when a maintenance calculation is in force.

2

The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for—

a

sections 16, 17 and 20; and

b

sections 28A to 28F and Schedules 4A and 4B,

to apply with prescribed modifications in relation to such applications.

3

The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that, in prescribed cases (or except in prescribed cases), a decision under section 17 made otherwise than pursuant to an application for a variation may be made on the basis of a variation agreed to for the purposes of an earlier decision without a new application for a variation having to be made.