Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 4

4. (1) The principal object of this Act is to ensure that children receive a
proper level of financial support from their parents.

(2) Particular objects of this Act include ensuring:

   (a)  that the level of financial support to be provided by parents for
        their children is determined according to their capacity to provide
        financial support and, in particular, that parents with a like
        capacity to provide financial support for their children should
        provide like amounts of financial support; and (b) that the level of
        financial support to be provided by parents for their children should
        be determined in accordance with the legislatively fixed standards;
        and

   (c)  that persons who provide ongoing daily care for children should be
        able to have the level of financial support to be provided for the
        children readily determined without the need to resort to court
        proceedings; and

   (d)  that children share in changes in the standard of living of both their
        parents, whether or not they are living with both or either of them.

(3) It is the intention of the Parliament that this Act should be construed,
to the greatest extent consistent with the attainment of its objects:

   (a)  to permit parents to make private arrangements for the financial
        support of their children; and

   (b)  to limit interferences with the privacy of persons.