Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT ACT 1988 No. 3 of 1988 - SECT 38

38. Where the payee of an enforceable maintenance liability who is not in
receipt of an income tested pension, allowance or benefit elects, by
furnishing a duly completed approved form to the Registrar, to have the
liability no longer enforced under this Act, the Registrar shall, within 28
days after receipt of the duly completed form:

   (a)  vary the particulars entered in the Child Support Register in relation
        to the liability by specifying a day (being a day not later than 60
        days after the day on which the Registrar receives the form) as the
        day on which the liability ceases to be enforceable under this Act (in
        paragraph (b) called the

"terminating day"); and

   (b)  if the payee, in that form, elects to have amounts payable under the
        liability in relation to the child support enforcement period that are
        unpaid on the terminating day also no longer enforced under
        this Act-make such variations to those particulars as the Registrar
        considers necessary or desirable to ensure that, in spite of section
        30, those amounts cease to be debts due by the payer to the
        Commonwealth.