47. For paragraph (1) of regulation 12 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (disposable income), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(1) For the purposes of paragraph 6(4) of Schedule 1 to the Act (protected income), the disposable income of an absent parent shall be—
(a)except in a case to which regulation 11(6) applies, the aggregate of his income and any income of any member of his family calculated in like manner as under regulation 11(2); and
(b)in a case to which regulation 11(6) applies, his net income as calculated in accordance with regulation 7.”.