PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 185 Garnishee notices--amounts paid in compliance

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 185

  (1)   A person who makes a payment to the Commonwealth in compliance with a garnishee notice is taken to have made the payment under the authority of the original debtor and of any other person concerned.

  (2)   If, after a garnishee notice is given to a garnishee, an amount is paid by another person in reduction or in satisfaction of the original debt:

  (a)   the Secretary must notify the garnishee accordingly; and

  (b)   the amount of the unpaid debt stated in the garnishee notice is taken to be reduced by an amount equal to the amount paid.