Contents

Part 1--Preliminary                                                                                                                                        1

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedule 1..................................................................................................................... 1

5............ Schedule 2..................................................................................................................... 1

6............ Schedule 3..................................................................................................................... 1

7............ Schedule 4..................................................................................................................... 2

8............ Definitions..................................................................................................................... 2

9............ Protected earnings rate................................................................................................... 3

10.......... Reciprocating jurisdictions............................................................................................ 3

Part 2--Registration of maintenance liabilities                                                                              4

11.......... Registrable overseas maintenance liability--penalty under international treaty.............. 4

12.......... Transmission of variation claims to overseas authorities............................................... 4

13.......... Exclusion of liabilities................................................................................................... 4

14.......... Inclusion of liabilities in Child Support Register--exceptions...................................... 4

15.......... Conversion of amounts payable under registrable maintenance liabilities...................... 4

16.......... Enforcement of Australian liabilities in reciprocating jurisdictions--exceptions........... 5

17.......... Prescribed income test................................................................................................... 5

18.......... Satisfactory payment record.......................................................................................... 6

Part 3--Payment and recovery of child support debts                                                             7

19.......... Specified payments........................................................................................................ 7

20.......... Prescribed periodic deduction........................................................................................ 7

21.......... Prescribed periodic deduction for veterans.................................................................... 8

Part 4--Departure prohibition orders                                                                                              10

22.......... Departure prohibition orders--prescribed persons...................................................... 10

Part 5--Payments to payees                                                                                                                     11

23.......... Prescribed amount that person not entitled to be paid.................................................. 11

24.......... Prescribed amount--remittances from employers....................................................... 11

Part 6--Review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal                                                    12

25.......... Limitation of powers of AAT...................................................................................... 12

Part 7--Miscellaneous                                                                                                                                 13

26.......... Debts due to the Commonwealth................................................................................. 13

27.......... Scale of expenses........................................................................................................ 13

28.......... Evidentiary certificates................................................................................................. 13

29.......... Evidence by affidavit................................................................................................... 13

30.......... Documents taken to be duly signed............................................................................. 14

31.......... Service of notices etc................................................................................................... 14

32.......... Service of documents in Australia for overseas authority............................................ 14

33.......... Giving notices or other communications in reciprocating jurisdictions........................ 15

34.......... Address for service..................................................................................................... 15

35.......... Failure to notify change of address.............................................................................. 15

36.......... Assistance in communicating with overseas authorities.............................................. 15

37.......... Conversion of foreign currency to Australian currency............................................... 15

38.......... Conversion of Australian currency to New Zealand currency..................................... 16

Schedule 1--Australia-New Zealand Agreement                                                17

Schedule 2--Reciprocating jurisdictions                                                                       29

Schedule 3--Powers of Registrar that AAT must not exercise               32

Part 1--Provisions of the Act                                                                                                                  32

Part 2--Provisions of the Assessment Act                                                                                       33

Schedule 4--Repeals                                                                                                                                     34

Child Support (Registration and Collection) Regulations 1988                                               34

 

  

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