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Child Support Act 1991

Exemptions - Miscellaneous provisions concerning exemptions

89ZC: Exempted person must advise Commissioner of certain matters

You could also call this:

“People who don't have to pay child support must tell the government about money changes”

If you are a person who has been given an exemption from paying child support, you need to tell the Commissioner about certain things. You must do this as soon as you can if any of these things happen:

You get any money that changes how the exemption works for all or part of the time you were given the exemption.

You get more money than you said you would when you asked for the exemption.

You find out that the exemption doesn’t work for all or part of the time you were given it.

If any of these things happen, you have to tell the Commissioner right away.

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Part 5A Exemptions
Miscellaneous provisions concerning exemptions

89ZCExempted person must advise Commissioner of certain matters

  1. This section applies if an exempted person—

  2. receives any income that affects the application of the exemption in relation to the whole or a part of a period for which the exemption has been granted; or
    1. receives more income than was disclosed in the estimates provided in or with the application for the exemption; or
      1. otherwise becomes aware that an exemption does not apply for the whole or a part of a period for which the exemption has been granted.

        1. The person must, as soon as practicable, notify the Commissioner of the matters referred to in subsection (1).

        Notes
        • Section 89ZC: inserted, on , by section 17(1) of the Child Support Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 42).