Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 102

Conversion of currency

102. Conversion of currency



(1) For the purposes of this Division, an overseas order (including a
provisional order) or a certificate or notice originating in a reciprocating
country, that refers to an amount of money (including an amount of arrears)
expressed in the currency of a reciprocating country shall be deemed to refer
to the amount that was the equivalent amount in Australian currency on the
prescribed date on the basis of the telegraphic transfer rate of exchange that
prevailed on that date.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a certificate signed by the Collector,
or the Collector for another Australian State, and purporting to be based on
information obtained by him from an authorised deposit-taking institution, a
specified amount in Australian currency was, on a specified date, the
equivalent of a specified amount in another currency on the basis of the
telegraphic transfer rate of exchange prevailing on that date shall be
evidence of the matter stated in the certificate.

(3) Where a certificate of a Collector in accordance with the last preceding
subsection has been filed in a court in Victoria in relation to an order,
certificate or notice, every copy of that order, certificate or notice served
on any person shall be accompanied by a copy of the first-mentioned
certificate.

(4) Where, under section seventy of this Act, the Collector is required to
remit an amount of money to a country outside the Commonwealth, he shall remit
such amount in the currency of that country as he is able to remit by the
expenditure of that first-mentioned amount.



(5) In this section the prescribed date means-

   (a)  in relation to a maintenance order registered under this Division, or
        a certificate with respect to the arrears payable under a maintenance
        order sought to be so registered-the day upon which the order is
        registered;

   (b)  in relation to a provisional order confirmed under this Division-the
        day upon which the order is confirmed; or

   (c)  in relation to an order or notice referred to in subsection (1) of the
        last preceding section-the day upon which the certified copy of the
        order or the notice is filed in a court in accordance with that
        subsection.