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CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 122

Right of contribution

    Where:

  (a)   2 or more persons are jointly or jointly and severally liable to pay a debt due to the Commonwealth under this Act; and

  (b)   one of those persons has paid the debt or part of the debt;

the person referred to in paragraph   (b) may, in a court of competent jurisdiction, recover by way of contribution, and as a debt, from any of the other persons referred to in paragraph   (a) such part of the amount paid as the court considers just and equitable.


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