Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Registrar must convert a periodic amount payable under a registered maintenance liability arising under a court order or a maintenance agreement to:
(a) a daily rate of payment; and
(b) one of the following rates of payment:
(i) weekly;
(ii) fortnightly;
(iii) 4 weekly;
(iv) monthly.
Note: An amount payable under a registrable maintenance liability is entered on the Child Support Register under paragraph 26(1)(f).
(2) The Registrar must convert an amount payable under a registered maintenance liability arising under a child support assessment in respect of a day into one of the rates of payment set out in paragraph (1)(b).
(3) If the Registrar is to collect amounts due to the Commonwealth under, or in relation to, a liability by deduction from the salary or wages of the payer of the liability, the Registrar must convert the periodic amount or daily amount (as the case may be) to a weekly rate of payment.
(4) The rate of payment to which the Registrar must convert a periodic amount payable under a registered maintenance liability, is the rate that reflects the payment period entered in the Register under paragraph 26(2)(b) in respect of the liability.
Note 1: For payment period see subsection 4(1).
Note 2: Sections 26A, 26B and 42A and Part IVA deal with the determination of the period, and the start day for the period, that may be entered in the Child Support Register under paragraph 26(2)(b).
Note 3: The particulars entered in the Child Support Register in respect of a liability must include the rates of payment provided for in this section (see paragraphs 26(2)(c) and (d)).