Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 17A

             (1)  Subject to section 19, a liability is a registrable maintenance liability if:

                     (a)  it is a liability of a person (the payer ) to pay an amount to another person (the payee ); and

                     (b)  it arises under a court order made under section 143 of the Assessment Act; and

                     (c)  the court made the order in response to a declaration under section 107 of that Act that the payee should not be assessed in respect of the costs of the child because the payee is not a parent of the child.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to the extent that a liability to pay an amount is a liability to pay any costs incurred in respect of proceedings instituted under section 143 of the Assessment Act.