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CHILD CARE PAYMENTS ACT 1997 No. 195 of 1997 - SECT 225
Power to obtain information to verify claims etc.
(1) The Secretary may require a person to give * information about a class of
persons to the Department for either or both of the following purposes:
Note 1: See section 226 for general provisions about
making requirements under this section. Note 2: See section 227 for
provisions relating to the Secretary's obligations to consider the
relevance of * information given in response to a requirement under
this section.
(2) The * information that the Secretary may require about each person in the
class of persons is all or any of the following information (but no other
information):
(a) full name and any previous name;
(b) address;
(c) sex;
(d) marital status;
(e) date of birth;
(f) date of death;
(g) dates of entries into and departures from Australia;
(h) any payments received by the person from the person required to
provide the information, in a specified period (not being a period
starting more than 12 months before the notice is given), and the
account number of any account into which any of those payments were
paid;
(i) in relation to a course of study or training being undertaken by the
person:
(j) in relation to
any employment of the person by the person given the notice:
(3) A person commits an offence if the person refuses or fails to comply with
a notice imposing a requirement under this section.
Penalty: 60 penalty
units.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles
of criminal responsibility.
(4) This section binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the
States, of the Australian Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory and of
Norfolk Island.
Note: The Crown is not liable to be prosecuted for an
offence--see section 242.
(5) This section does not require a person to give * information to the extent
that in doing so the person would contravene a law of the Commonwealth (other
than a law of a Territory).
Note: State or Territory law does not affect a
person's obligations under this section--see section 228.
(6) This section extends to:
(a) acts, omissions, matters and things outside
Australia, whether or not in a foreign country; and
(b) all persons, irrespective of their nationality, who are making or who
have made a claim for a * child care payment; and
(c) all persons, irrespective of their nationality, who are * receiving,
or have received, a payment of a child care payment.
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