PART II AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS

5 Amendment of the Child Support Fees Regulations 1992
1 The Child Support Fees Regulations 1992 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
S.I.1992/3094.
2 In regulation 1(2) of those Regulations, for the definition of “collection fee” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““collection fee” means a fee in respect of services provided by the Secretary of State for the collection of child support maintenance or for enforcing payment of such maintenance or both such collection and such enforcement;”

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3 For paragraph (3) of regulation 3 of those Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“3 In a case falling within paragraph (1)(b) the fee payable shall be the assessment fee and if, but only if, collection or enforcement services (or both) are provided by the Secretary of State, the collection fee.”

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4 For paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of those Regulations, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“2 Where a collection fee is payable under regulation 3(2) or 3(3) the first such fee shall become payable on the date the Secretary of State first takes action to collect or enforce payment of child support maintenance, and any subsequent fee which becomes so payable shall be payable on the date the assessment fee becomes payable.”

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