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Child Support Act 1991

Assessment of child support and domestic maintenance - Provisions relating to making of assessments

79: Assessment to relate to whole or part of single child support year

You could also call this:

“Child support payments are calculated for one year or less at a time”

When someone checks how much child support or domestic maintenance should be paid, they look at a specific time period. This period can be as long as a whole year or as short as part of a year. The year they use for this is called a child support year. They won’t look at more than one child support year at a time when figuring out the payment amount.

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Part 5 Assessment of child support and domestic maintenance
Provisions relating to making of assessments

79Assessment to relate to whole or part of single child support year

  1. An assessment of child support or domestic maintenance is to relate to all or part of a single child support year.

Compare
  • Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 s 68 (Aust)
Notes
  • Section 79: amended, on , by section 3 of the Child Support Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 6).