The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998

Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations

58.—(1) Schedule 3 to the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (eligible housing costs) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 1—

(a)for the words “the following payments” there shall be substituted the words “the following amounts payable”;

(b)in sub-paragraphs (a) and (k), for the words “payments of, or by way of,” there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable by way of”;

(c)for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b)amounts payable by way of mortgage interest;”;

(d)in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d), for the words “interest payments” there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable by way of interest”;

(e)in sub-paragraphs (e) to (j), (l), (n) and (p), for the word “payments” there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable”;

(f)in sub-paragraph (q), for the word “payment” there shall be substituted the words “amount payable”;

(g)in sub-paragraph (r)—

(i)for the word “payments” where it first appears there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable”;

(ii)for the words “payments made by the employer deducting the payment in question” there shall be substituted the words “any amounts deductible by the employer”;

(h)for sub-paragraph (t) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(t)amounts payable in respect of a loan taken out to pay off another loan but only to the extent that it was incurred in respect of amounts eligible to be taken into account as housing costs by virtue of other provisions of this Schedule.”.

(3) In paragraph 3—

(a)in sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A), for the words “makes periodical payments” there shall be substituted the words “is liable to make periodical payments” and for the words “the amount of those payments” there shall be substituted the words “those amounts payable”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (3)—

(i)for the words “certain payments made” there shall be substituted the words “certain amounts payable”;

(ii)for the words “the weekly amount of any other payments which are made” there shall be substituted the words “any other amounts payable”;

(c)in sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) for the words “premiums paid” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “premiums payable”;

(d)in sub-paragraph (6)(b) for the word “payments” there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable”.