Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. V applied (with modifications) (S.) (6.10.2003) by The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/460), reg. 1, sch. Pt. I Table A (with reg. 13)
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. V Ch. VII heading substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(5)
F2Words in Pt. V Ch. VII heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)
56.—(1) The period over which a periodical payment is to be taken into account shall be—
(a)in a case where the payment is made at regular intervals, a period equal to the length of that interval;
(b)in a case where the payment is due to be made at regular intervals but is not so made, such number of weeks as is equal to the number (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) obtained by dividing the amount of that payment by the weekly amount of that periodical payment as calculated in accordance with regulation 58(4) (calculation of the weekly amount of a liable relative payment);
(c)in any other case, a period equal to a week.
(2) The period under paragraph (1) shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 59 (date on which a liable relative payment is to be treated as paid).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 56 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1