CHILD CARE PAYMENTS ACT 1997 No. 195 of 1997 - SECT 225 Power to obtain information to verify claims etc.
CHILD CARE PAYMENTS ACT 1997 No. 195 of 1997 - SECT 225
Power to obtain information to verify claims etc. (1) The Secretary may require a person to give * information about a class of persons to the Department for either or both of the following purposes:
- (a)
detecting cases in which amounts of * child care payment have been paid when
they should not have been paid;
(b) verifying the entitlement of persons who have made claims for child care payments.
- Note 1: See section 226 for general provisions about
making requirements under this section.
Note 2: See section 227 for provisions relating to the Secretary's obligations to consider the relevance of * information given in response to a requirement under this section.
- (a) full name and any previous name;
(b) address;
(c) sex;
(d) marital status;
(e) date of birth;
(f) date of death;
(g) dates of entries into and departures from Australia;
(h) any payments received by the person from the person required to provide the information, in a specified period (not being a period starting more than 12 months before the notice is given), and the account number of any account into which any of those payments were paid;
(i) in relation to a course of study or training being undertaken by the person:
- (i) the date on which the person started the course; and
(ii) the date on which the person completed the course;
- (j) in relation to
any employment of the person by the person given the notice:
- (i) the
date on which the person's employment started; and
(ii) the date on which the person's employment ended.
- Penalty: 60 penalty
units.
- Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles
of criminal responsibility.
- Note: The Crown is not liable to be prosecuted for an
offence--see section 242.
- Note: State or Territory law does not affect a
person's obligations under this section--see section 228.
- (a) acts, omissions, matters and things outside
Australia, whether or not in a foreign country; and
(b) all persons, irrespective of their nationality, who are making or who have made a claim for a * child care payment; and
(c) all persons, irrespective of their nationality, who are * receiving, or have received, a payment of a child care payment.