Amendment of regulation 10 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations30.

(1)

Regulation 10 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (notification of a new or a fresh maintenance assessment) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(1)

Where a child support officer—

(a)

makes a new or fresh maintenance assessment following an application under section 4, 6 or 7 of the Act or a review under section 16, 17, 18 or 19 of the Act;

(b)

substitutes an interim maintenance assessment for one which is in force in accordance with regulation 8; or

(c)

makes a maintenance assessment calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act where an interim maintenance assessment is or has been in force,

he shall immediately notify the relevant persons, so far as that is reasonably practicable, of the amount of the child support maintenance under that assessment.”.

(3)

In paragraph (2) for the words “paragraph (2A)” there shall be substituted the words “ paragraphs (2A) and (2B) ”.

(4)

In paragraph (2A), after the words “Category A” wherever they appear there shall be inserted the words “ Category C or D ”.

(5)

After paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2B)

A notification under paragraph (1) in relation to a Category B interim maintenance assessment shall set out in relation to it—

(a)

the matters listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) to (f) of paragraph (2); and

(b)

where known, the absent parent’s assessable income.”.

(6)

In paragraph (5), after the words “Category A” wherever they appear there shall be inserted the words “ or Category D ”.