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CORONAVIRUS ECONOMIC RESPONSE PACKAGE (PAYMENTS AND BENEFITS) ACT 2020 (NO. 37, 2020) - NOTES

 

No. 37, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 2

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Object of this Act................................................................................ 3

4............ Application to external Territories....................................................... 3

5............ General administration of this Act....................................................... 3

6............ Definitions.......................................................................................... 3

7............ Coronavirus economic response payments......................................... 4

8............ Method of paying Coronavirus economic response payments............ 5

9............ Overpayments etc................................................................................ 5

10.......... General interest charge on overpayment debts.................................... 6

11.......... Joint and several liability for overpayment debts................................. 7

12.......... When the Commissioner is taken to have made a decision or given a notice            8

13.......... Review of the Commissioner's decision............................................. 9

14.......... No entitlement to payment unless record keeping requirements are met 9

15.......... Pre-payment record keeping requirements........................................ 11

16.......... Post-payment record keeping requirements....................................... 12

17.......... Commissioner may require records to be produced.......................... 13

18.......... Records that are lost or destroyed..................................................... 13

19.......... Contrived schemes............................................................................ 14

20.......... Rules................................................................................................. 15

 


Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

 

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

No. 37, 2020

 

 

 

An Act to provide an economic response, and deal with other matters, relating to the Coronavirus, and for related purposes

[Assented to 9 April 2020]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

 

[Minister's second reading speech made in--

House of Representatives on 8 April 2020

Senate on 8 April 2020]

 

(53/20)

 



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