PART VIII INCOME AND CAPITAL
Chapter VIII Child Support
Calculation of the weekly amount of child support maintenance128.
(1)
The weekly amount of child support maintenance shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2)
Where payments of child support maintenance are made weekly, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment.
(3)
Where payments of child support maintenance are made monthly, the weekly amount shall be determined by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52.
(4)
Where payments of child support are made at intervals and those intervals are not a week or a month, the weekly amount shall be determined by dividing that payment by the number equal to the number of weeks (including any part of a week) in that interval.
(5)
Where a payment is made and that payment represents a commutation of child support maintenance, the weekly amount shall be the weekly amount of the individual child support maintenance payments so commuted as calculated in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4) as appropriate.
(6)
Paragraph (2), (3), or, as the case may be, (4) shall apply to any payments made at the intervals specified in that paragraph whether or not—
(a)
the amount paid is in accordance with the maintenance F1calculation; and
(b)
the intervals at which the payments are made are in accordance with the intervals specified by the Secretary of State under regulation 4 of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 F2.