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1.—(1) Where a person makes an effective application for a maintenance assessment under section 4 or 6 of the Act and, before that assessment is made, makes a subsequent effective application under that section with respect to the same absent parent or person with care, as the case may be, those applications shall be treated as a single application.
(2) Where a parent with care makes an effective application for a maintenance assessment—
(a)under section 4 of the Act; or
(b)under section 6 of the Act,
and, before that assessment is made, makes a subsequent effective application—
(c)in a case falling within paragraph (a), under section 6 of the Act; or
(d)in a case falling within paragraph (b), under section 4 of the Act,
with respect to the same absent parent, those applications shall, if the parent with care does not cease to fall within section 6(1) of the Act, be treated as a single application under section 6 of the Act, and shall otherwise be treated as a single application under section 4 of the Act.
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