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CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 74

Credit of amounts to Account

  (1)   The following amounts must be credited to the Account:

  (a)   amounts equal to amounts received by the Registrar in payment of child support debts or carer debts (including amounts received from employers under paragraph   47(1)(a));

  (b)   amounts equal to amounts received by the Registrar from payers of enforceable maintenance liabilities as voluntary payments for transmission to the payees of the liabilities;

  (c)   amounts equal to amounts that are to be debited from the Account in making payments mentioned in paragraph   75(1)(c).

  (2)   If the Registrar receives an amount of which only part appears to the Registrar to fall within subsection   (1), the Registrar must determine, in writing, the portion of the amount falling within that subsection, and only that portion is to be credited to the Account under subsection   (1).

  (3)   If an amount would be credited to the Account under both section   74 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (which deals with receipt of amounts by non - corporate Commonwealth entities) and paragraph   (1)(c) of this section, the amount is to be credited to the Account under whichever of those provisions first applies.


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