Amendment of regulation 12 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure RegulationsE+W+S
19. For paragraph (1) of regulation 12 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (notification of refusal to make new or fresh maintenance assessment) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(1) Where a child support officer—
(a)refuses an application for a maintenance assessment under the Act;
(b)refuses to make a fresh assessment following a review under section 17 of the Act;
(c)refuses to make an assessment or a fresh assessment following a review under section 18 of the Act; or
(d)decides not to make a maintenance assessment or a fresh assessment under section 19 of the Act,
he shall immediately notify the following persons, so far as that is reasonably practicable—
(i)where an application for a maintenance assessment under section 4 or 6 of the Act is refused, the applicant;
(ii)where an application under section 7 of the Act is refused, the applicant child and the other relevant persons who have been notified of the application;
(iii)where there is a refusal to make a fresh assessment following a review under section 17 or 18(2) of the Act, or a child support officer has decided not to make a fresh assessment following a review under section 19(1)(c) of the Act, the relevant persons; or
(iv)where there is a refusal to make an assessment following a review under section 18(1)(a) of the Act, or a child support officer has decided not to make an assessment following a review under section 19(1)(a) of the Act, the applicant for that assessment,
and shall give in writing the reasons for his refusal.”.