In this Schedule—

• “day” means, in relation to a person who attends at a work place for one period of work which commences before midnight of one day and concludes the following day, the first of those days;

• “journey” means a single journey, and “pair of journeys” means two journeys in opposing directions, between the same two places;

• “relevant employment” means an employed earner’s employment in which the relevant person is employed and in the course of which he is required to attend at a work place, and “relevant employer” means the employer of the relevant person in that employment;

• “relevant person” means—

  1. a

     in the application of the provisions of this Schedule to regulation 9, the absent parent or the parent with care; and

  2. b

     in the application of the provisions of this Schedule to regulation 11, the absent parent;

• “straight-line distance” means the straight-line distance measured in miles and calculated to 2 decimal places, and, where that distance is not a whole number of miles, rounded to the nearest whole number of miles, a distance which exceeds a whole number of miles by 0.50 of a mile being rounded up;

• “travelling costs” means the costs of—

  1. a

     purchasing either fuel or a ticket for the purpose of travel;

  2. b

     contributing to the costs borne by a person other than a relevant employer in providing transport; or

  3. c

     paying another to provide transport,

  which are incurred by the relevant person in travelling between the relevant person’s home and his work place, and where he has more than one relevant employment between any of his work places in those employments;

• “work place” means the relevant person’s normal place of employment in a relevant employment, and “deemed work place” means a place which has been selected by the child support officer, pursuant either to paragraph 8(2) or 15(2) for the purpose of calculating the amount to be allowed in respect of the relevant person’s travelling costs.