Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

2.—(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.

(2) In regulation 6B (circumstances in which a child support decision may not be superseded)(2)—

(a)for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) Where the application for a supersession is made on more than one ground, if those grounds which do not relate to the net income of the non-resident parent lead to a superseding decision this regulation shall not apply to the ground relating to the net income of that parent.”;

(b)after paragraph (4) add—

“(5) Where an application has been made to which paragraph (1) applied (“application A”) and a further application (“application B”) is made for a supersession on a ground other than one relating to the net income of the non-resident parent, the Secretary of State may make a superseding decision on the basis that application A was made at the same time as application B.”.