CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 - SECT 40B Non - parent carer must have applied for child support

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 - SECT 40B

  (1)   A non - parent carer of a child is not, under section   36, 38, 39, 40, 65A or 66, entitled to be paid an annual rate of child support for the child for a day in a child support period unless the non - parent carer has made an application under section   25A in relation to the child.

  (2)   If a non - parent carer is not entitled to be paid child support for a child for a day in a child support period under subsection   (1), the annual rate of child support payable by the parent for the child for the day is reduced by the amount that is not payable because of subsection   (1).

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a non - parent carer of a child has not so applied at the time the administrative assessment of child support for the child for the child support period is made; but

  (b)   the non - parent carer does so during the child support period;

then:

  (c)   the non - parent carer is entitled to be paid an annual rate of child support for the child worked out under this Part from the day on which the non - parent carer makes the application under section   25A; and

  (d)   despite paragraph   7A(2)(a), a new child support period is not started by that application.