The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1995

Amendment of regulation 33 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure RegulationsE+W+S

36.—(1) Regulation 33 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (6), after the words “the earlier maintenance assessment," there shall be inserted the words “except where regulation 3(7) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations or paragraph (8) applies,".

(3) After paragraph (6) of regulation 33 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations (maintenance periods), there shall be added the following paragraphs—

(7) Subject to regulation 3(7) of the Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction Regulations and to paragraph (8), the effective date of a maintenance assessment made in response to an application falling within paragraph (6) shall be the date upon which the first maintenance period in relation to that application commences in accordance with that paragraph.

(8) The first maintenance period in relation to a maintenance assessment which is made in response to an application falling within paragraph (6) and which immediately follows an interim maintenance assessment shall commence on the effective date of that interim maintenance assessment or 22nd January 1996 whichever is the later, and the effective date of that maintenance assessment shall be the date upon which that first maintenance period commences..