Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT ACT 1988 No. 3 of 1988 - SECT 19

19. (1) The regulations may provide that specified liabilities, or liabilities
included in specified classes of liabilities, are not registrable maintenance
liabilities.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may:

   (a)  make different provision for the purposes of section 17 or 18; and

   (b)  specify liabilities, or a class of liabilities, by reference to all or
        any of the following:

        (i)    when the orders or agreements under which the liabilities arose
               were made, registered, approved or sanctioned, as the case may
               be;

        (ii)   characteristics of the persons to whom the liabilities relate,
               including:

                (A)  if those persons are children, their dates of birth and,
                     if applicable, when their parents separated;

                (B)  if those persons are not children, their ages and whether
                     or not they are in receipt of an income tested pension,
                     allowance or benefit;

        (iii)  whether or not the liabilities are collection agency
               maintenance liabilities of a State or Territory;

        (iv)   whether or not the liabilities arose under orders made under
               section 66K or 77 of the Family Law Act 1975.