Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 29

29. (1) Subject to subsection (2), in determining whether an application for
administrative assessment of child support complies with sections 24, 25 and
26, the Registrar may act on the basis of the application and the documents
accompanying the application, and is not required to conduct any inquiries or
investigations into the matter.

(2) The Registrar is to be satisfied that a person is a parent of a child only
if the Registrar is satisfied:

   (a)  that the person is or was a party to a marriage and the child was born
        to the person, or the other party to the marriage, during the
        marriage; or

   (b)  that the person's name is entered in a register of births or parentage
        information, kept under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State,
        Territory or prescribed overseas jurisdiction, as a parent of the
        child; or

   (c)  that, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, an
        Australian court or a court of a prescribed overseas jurisdiction has
        found, or could reasonably be inferred to have found, that the person
        is the father or mother of the child, and the finding has not been
        altered, set aside or reversed; or

   (d)  that, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, the person
        has, under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State, Territory or
        prescribed overseas jurisdiction, executed an instrument acknowledging
        that he is the father of the child, and the instrument has not been
        annulled or otherwise set aside; or

   (e)  that the child has been adopted by the person.