PART 2 Application fee

3 The application fee
1 On making an application for child support maintenance a fee of £20 is payable to the Secretary of State by the person making the application, whether or not a maintenance calculation is made under the 1991 Act as a result of that application.
2 For the purposes of section 11(1) and (2) (maintenance calculations) of the 1991 Act , the Secretary of State is not obliged to determine an application for child support maintenance until the application fee has been paid or is waived under regulation 4 (waiver of the application fee).
Section 11(1) was substituted by section 1(1) of the 2000 Act.