The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996

[F1 Amendment of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases RegulationsE+W+S

68.—(1) The Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

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(3) In paragraph (4) of regulation 1, there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “These Regulations are subject to the provisions of Parts VIII and IX of the Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations and".

(4) In paragraph (2)(c) of regulation 9, after head (iv) there shall be added the following head—

“(v)where a departure direction has been given on the grounds that a case falls within regulation 27 of the Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (partner’s contribution to housing costs), the amount of the housing costs which corresponds to the percentage of the housing costs mentioned in regulation 40(7) of those Regulations.”.

(5) In regulation 22—

(a)in paragraph (2), after the words “and in these Regulations" there shall be inserted the words “, and subject to paragraph (2ZA),"; and

(b)after paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2ZA) Where a case falls within regulation 39(1)(a) of the Departure Direction and Consequential Amendment Regulations, for the purposes of assessing the amount of child support maintenance payable in respect of an application for child support maintenance before a departure direction in respect of the maintenance assessment in question is given, for references to the assessable income of an absent parent in the Act and in these Regulations there shall be substituted references to the amount calculated by the formula—

where A, T, B and D have the same meanings as in paragraph (2).”.]

Textual Amendments

F1Instrument Regulations revoked (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), reg. 10(d)