Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(a) is a payer of an enforceable maintenance liability under section 17 of th e Act ; and
(b) is in receipt of a pension or allowance of a kind mentioned in paragraph 72AC(1)(b) of the Act;
then, for the purposes of paragraph 72AC(2)(c) of the Act, the prescribed periodic deduction from the person's pension or allowance is the lesser of:
( c ) 3 times the minimum veterans rate for the pension period for the pension or allowance ; and
( d ) the amount of the enforceable maintenance liability payable for the pension period.
(a) has an unpaid child support debt; and
(b) is in receipt of a pension or allowance of a kind mentioned in paragraph 72AC(1)(b) of the Act;
then, for the purposes of subparagraph 72AC(2)(d)(i) of the Act, the prescribed periodic deduction from the person's pension or allowance is the lesser of:
( c ) 3 times the minimum veterans rate for the pension period , less any amount to be deducted from the person 's pension or allowance under paragraph 72AC(2)(c) of the Act; and
( d ) the amount of the unpaid child support debt .
(3) The minimum veterans rate , for a pension period in a calendar year, is worked out as follows:
Method statement
Step 1. Divide the minimum annual rate of child support by 365.25.
Step 2. The amount worked out in s tep 1 must be rounded to 5 decimal places (rounding up if the sixth decimal place is 5 or more).
Step 3. Multiply the amount worked out in s tep 2 by the number of days in the pension period.
Step 4. Round the amount worked out in s tep 3 to the nearest cent by increasing the second decimal place by 1 if the third decimal place is 5 or more.