CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 120 Obtaining of information and evidence

CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 120

  (1)   The Registrar may, for the purposes of this Act, by notice in writing, require a person:

  (a)   to furnish to the Registrar, within a reasonable period, and in a reasonable manner, specified in the notice, such information as the Registrar requires;

  (b)   to attend before the Registrar, or before an officer authorised by the Registrar for the purpose, at a reasonable time and place specified in the notice, and then and there answer questions; and

  (c)   to produce to the Registrar, at a reasonable time and place specified in the notice, any documents in the custody or under the control of the person.

  (1A)   A court having jurisdiction under this Act may, in a proceeding instituted in the court by a payee of a registered maintenance liability or carer liability under section   113A to recover a debt due in relation to the liability, exercise all the powers of the Registrar under subsection   (1).

  (2)   The regulations shall prescribe scales of expenses to be allowed to persons required to attend under this section.

  (3)   A person who refuses or fails to comply with a requirement made under subsection   (1), or by a court in accordance with subsection   (1A), commits an offence punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.

  (4)   Subsection   (3) applies only to the extent to which the person is capable of complying with the requirement.

  (5)   Subsection   (3) is an offence of strict liability.

  (6)   This section does not apply in relation to a person:

  (a)   in respect of whom an international maintenance arrangement applies; and

  (b)   who is a resident of a reciprocating jurisdiction.