Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An application made under this section is a liable parent application .
(2) A person may apply to the Registrar under this section for administrative assessment of child support for a child if:
(a) the person is a parent of the child; and
(b) the person satisfies the residence requirement in subsection (3) on the day the application is made; and
(c) the person is seeking to pay child support for the child; and
(d) the person is seeking to pay the child support to an eligible carer of the child; and
(e) the person is not living with the person to whom child support is sought to be paid as the partner of that person on a genuine domestic basis (whether or not legally married to that person); and
(f) the person complies with any applicable requirements of section 26 (dealing with joint care situations) and section 26A (dealing with children cared for under child welfare laws).
(3) The residence requirement mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) is that the person:
(a) is a resident of Australia; or
(b) unless the person seeks in the application to pay child support to another person who is a resident of a reciprocating jurisdiction--is a resident of a reciprocating jurisdiction.
(4) If the person applying is a resident of a reciprocating jurisdiction, the application must be either:
(a) made directly to the Registrar by the person; or
(b) made by the person and given to the Registrar by an overseas authority of the reciprocating jurisdiction.
(5) If an application is made by a person and given to the Registrar by an overseas authority of a reciprocating jurisdiction, the regulations may prescribe actions the overseas authority may take for the person with the person's consent.
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