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Changes over time for: Section 24
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Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992, Section 24.
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Persons with part-time care—not including a person treated as an absent parent
24.—(1) Where the circumstances of a case are that—
(a)two or more persons who do not live in the same household each provide day to day care for the same qualifying child; and
(b)those persons do not include any parent who is treated as an absent parent of that child by regulation 20(2),
that case shall be treated as a special case for the purposes of the Act.
(2) For the purposes of this case—
(a)the person whose application for a maintenance assessment is being proceeded with shall, subject to paragraph (b), be entitled to receive all of the child support maintenance payable under the Act in respect of the child in question;
(b)on request being made to the Secretary of State by—
(i)that person; or
(ii)any other person who is providing day to day care for that child and who intends to continue to provide that care,
the Secretary of State may make arrangements for the payment of any child support maintenance payable under the Act to the persons who provide such care in the same ratio as that in which it appears to the Secretary of State, that each is to provide such care for the child in question;
(c)before making an arrangement under sub-paragraph (b), the Secretary of State shall consider all of the circumstances of the case and in particular the interests of the child, the present arrangements for the day to day care of the child in question and any representations or proposals made by the persons who provide such care for that child.
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