Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 8

8. (1) For the purposes of this Act, if:

   (a)  a person is the principal provider of ongoing daily care for a child;
        and (b) another person has care of the child for at least 40% of the
        nights of the child support year concerned; the other person is to be
        taken to share ongoing daily care of the child substantially equally
        with the first-mentioned person.

(2) Subsection (1) is not to be taken to limit by implication the
circumstances in which a person shares ongoing daily care of a child
substantially equally with another person.