Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 6

             (1)  Without prejudice to its effect apart from this section, this Act in so far as it relates to the maintenance of children also has effect as provided by this section.

             (2)  By virtue of this subsection, the provisions of this Act (other than subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition of collection agency maintenance liability in subsection 4(1) or subparagraph 17(a)(ii)) in so far as they relate to the maintenance of children have the effect that they would have if:

                     (a)  each reference to a child were, by express provision, confined to a child of a marriage; and

                     (b)  each reference to the parents of the child were, by express provision, confined to the parties to the marriage;

and have that effect only in so far as they make provision with respect to the rights and duties of the parties to the marriage in relation to the child, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, provision with respect to the rights and duties of those parties in relation to the maintenance of the child.

             (3)  Nothing in this section affects the operation of the provisions of this Act to the extent that they give effect to an international maintenance arrangement.