Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 173

173. After section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Registrar to register liability in Child Support Register on making of child
support assessment

"24A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), where the Registrar makes a child support
assessment under which a registrable maintenance liability arises, the
Registrar must immediately register the liability under this Act by entering
particulars of the liability in the Child Support Register.

"(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a registrable maintenance
liability if:

   (a)  the payee is not in receipt of an income tested pension, allowance or
        benefit at the time the assessment is made; and

   (b)  the payee elected in the relevant application for assessment of child
        support or the relevant application for acceptance of a child support
        agreement, as the case requires, not to have the liability enforced
        under this Act.".