The Child Support (Temporary Compensation Payment Scheme) Regulations 2000

Application of the Regulations

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 27(2) of the 2000 Act, section 27 shall have effect as if it were modified so as to apply to cases of arrears of child support maintenance which have become due under a fresh maintenance assessment made in the following circumstances:

(a) where the Secretary of State has given a departure direction under section 28F of the Child Support Act and—

(i) the revised amount is higher than the current amount; and

(ii) the effective date of the fresh maintenance assessment is a date before 1st June 1999; or

(b) following a review under section 18 of the Child Support Act (reviews of decisions of child support officers) or a review under section 19 of that Act (reviews at instigation of child support officers) (as those provisions had effect before their substitution by section 41 of the Social Security Act),

and the effective date of the assessment is earlier than the date on which the assessment was made; or

(c) following an appeal to a child support appeal tribunal under section 20 of the Child Support Act (as it had effect before its substitution by section 42 of the Social Security Act) against a decision of a child support officer.

(2) In this regulation—

“current amount” means the amount of child support maintenance fixed by the current assessment; and

“revised amount” means the amount of child support maintenance fixed by the fresh maintenance assessment as a result of the departure direction given by the Secretary of State.