Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT ACT 1988 No. 3 of 1988 - SECT 26

26. (1) The entry in the Child Support Register in relation to a registered
maintenance liability shall include:

   (a)  the name of the payer;

   (b)  the name of the payee;

   (c)  particulars of the court order or maintenance agreement under which
        the liability arose and each court order and maintenance agreement
        varying or otherwise affecting the first-mentioned order or agreement,
        being particulars that are, in the opinion of the Registrar,
        sufficient to adequately identify the basis of the liability;

   (d)  the name and date of birth of each child to whose maintenance the
        entry relates;

   (e)  the name of any other person to whose maintenance the entry relates;

   (f)  the periodic amount, or the aggregate of the periodic amounts, payable
        by the payer in relation to the entry;

   (g)  in a case where the entry relates to the maintenance of 2 or more
        persons-the periodic amount attributable to each of them;

   (h)  the period at which amounts are payable under the liability;

   (j)  the day on which the liability first becomes enforceable under this
        Act;

   (k)  in a case where the liability ceases to be enforceable under this Act
        (whether on one occasion or more than one occasion)-each day on which
        the liability ceases to be so enforceable;

   (m)  in a case where the liability ceases to be enforceable under this Act
        and again becomes so enforceable (whether on one occasion or more than
        one occasion)-each day on which the liability again becomes
        enforceable under this Act;

   (n)  particulars of any suspension of the liability; and

   (p)  particulars of any terms and conditions of the court order or
        agreement that the Registrar considers necessary or desirable to
        include in the entry to ensure that all the terms and conditions of
        the order or agreement relating to the liability are fully given
        effect to under this Act.

(2) The entry in the Child Support Register in relation to a registered
maintenance liability may also include:

   (a)  the daily, weekly or monthly rate of payment in relation to the
        periodic amount, or the aggregate of the periodic amounts, payable by
        the payer in relation to the entry;

   (b)  a statement of whether or not automatic withholding applies in
        relation to the liability; and

   (c)  such other matters as the Registrar considers necessary or desirable
        to be included in the Child Support Register.