CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 - SECT 55HA Working out the costs of the child if parents have multiple child support cases

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 - SECT 55HA

  (1)   If an annual rate of child support for a day in a child support period is assessed for a child under section   37 or 38 (Formulas 3 and 4), identify the column in the Costs of the Children Table for that child support period that covers the combined child support income of the parents of the child.

Note:   The Secretary publishes the updated Costs of the Children Table in the Gazette each year for child support periods that begin in the next year (see section   155).

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an annual rate of child support for a day in a child support period is assessed for a child under Subdivision D of Division   2 (Formulas 5 and 6); and

  (b)   the parent of the child is assessed in respect of the costs of another child who is in another child support case;

identify the column in the Costs of the Children Table for that child support period that covers the child support income of the parent of the child.

Note:   This subsection also applies in working out the multi - case allowance (step 3 of the method statement in section   47).

  (3)   Identify the number of children (the child support children ) in the child support case that relates to the child.

  (4)   Identify the ages of the child support children on the day.

  (5)   In respect of each of the child support children:

  (a)   assume that all of the child support children are the same age as that child; and

  (b)   identify the item in the relevant column in the Costs of the Children Table that covers that number of child support children of that age.

(If there are more than 3 child support children, use the row for 3 children.)

  (6)   For the purposes of this section, the costs of the child for a day in a child support period, in respect of each child, is the amount worked out, in accordance with Schedule   1 to this Act, for the item identified for that child divided by the number of child support children.

  (7)   For the purposes of paragraph   (2)(b), a parent is taken to be assessed in respect of the costs of another child who is in another child support case if the parent is liable to pay child support for that child under an administrative assessment under the law of a reciprocating jurisdiction.