Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1992/1815 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; ortwo people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as a married couple;“course of advanced education" meansa full-time course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a Diploma of Higher Education, a higher national diploma, a higher national diploma or higher national certificate of the Business and F66Technology Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council or a teaching qualification; orany other full-time course which is a course of a standard above that of an ordinary national diploma, a national diploma or national certificate of the Business and F66Technology Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council, the advanced level of the General Certificate of Education, a Scottish certificate of education (higher level) or a Scottish certificate of sixth year studies;“covenant income" means the gross income payable to a student under a Deed of Covenant by a parent;“day" includes any part of a day;F99“day to day care” means—care of not less than 104 nights in total during the 12 month period ending with the relevant week; orwhere, in the opinion of the F313Secretary of State, a period other than 12 months is more representative of the current arrangements for the care of the child in question, care during that period is not less in total than the number of nights which bears the same ratio to 104 nights as that period bears to 12 months,and for the purpose of this definition—where a child is a boarder at a boarding school, or is an in-patient in a hospital, the person who, but for those circumstances, would otherwise provide day to day care of the child shall be treated as providing day to day care during the periods in question; in relation to an application for child support maintenance, “relevant week" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in head (ii) of sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant week" in this paragraph; in a case where notification is given under regulation 24 of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations to the relevant persons on different dates, “relevant week" means the period of seven days immediately preceding the date of the latest notification;F241“Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations” means the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996;“earnings" has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph F3551, 2A or 3, as the case may be, of Schedule 1;F187“earnings top-up" means the allowance paid by the Secretary of State under the rules specified in the Earnings Top-up Scheme;“The Earnings Top-up Scheme" means the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996;“effective date" means the date on which a maintenance assessment takes effect for the purposes of the Act;“eligible housing costs" shall be
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