Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 25

25. (1) Application may be made to the Registrar for administrative assessment
of child support for a child only if the person making the application:

   (a)  is an eligible custodian of the child; and

   (b)  is not living with the person from whom payment of child support is
        sought as the spouse of that person on a genuine domestic basis
        (whether or not legally married to that person); and

   (c)  complies with subsections (2) and (3) so far as those subsections are
        applicable.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where:

   (a)  2 or more persons jointly are the sole or principal providers of
        ongoing daily care for a child; or

   (b)  2 or more persons jointly share ongoing daily care of a child
        substantially equally with another person or other persons;
        application may be made to the Registrar for administrative assessment
        of child support for the child by any, but not more than one, of the
        persons (in subsection (3) called
the "joint custodians") who jointly are the sole or principal providers of the
ongoing daily care of the child or who jointly share ongoing daily care of the
child substantially equally with another person or other persons.

(3) If either or any of the joint custodians is a parent of the child, the
application must be made by or on behalf of the person who is the parent.