Amendment of regulation 22 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations23.

For paragraph (4) of regulation 22 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“(4)

Where the aggregate of the child support maintenance payable by the absent parent is less than the minimum amount prescribed in regulation 13(1), the child support maintenance payable shall be–

(a)

that prescribed minimum amount apportioned between the two or more applications in the same ratio as the maintenance requirements in question bear to each other; or

(b)

where, because of the application of regulation 2(2), such an apportionment produces an aggregate amount which is different from that prescribed minimum amount, that different amount.”.