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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1237AA

Waiver of debt relating to an offence

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a debtor has been convicted of an offence that gave rise to a proportion of a debt; and

  (b)   the court indicated in sentencing the debtor that it imposed a longer custodial sentence on the debtor because he or she was unable or unwilling to pay the debt;

the Secretary must waive the right to recover the proportion of the debt that arose in connection with the offence.

  (2)   For the purposes of this section, a proportion of a debt may be 100% of the debt.


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