Child Support Act 1991

Collection of financial support - Method in which financial support to be collected

129: Right to choose voluntary automatic deductions or other payment method

You could also call this:

"You can pick how you want to pay child support: from your wages or another way"

If you have to pay child support under this law, you can choose how you want to pay it to the Commissioner. You have two main options:

  1. You can have the money automatically taken from your pay if you work for an employer. This is called an automatic deduction. To do this:

    • You must be getting paid by an employer
    • You need to tell the Commissioner that you want the money taken from your pay
    • The Commissioner has to think it's okay to do it this way for you
  2. If you can't have the money taken from your pay, or you don't want to, you can pay another way that the Commissioner agrees to.

Remember, there are some special rules in sections 129A to 131 that might change how this works for some people.

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Part 8Collection of financial support
Method in which financial support to be collected

129Right to choose voluntary automatic deductions or other payment method

  1. Subject to sections 129A to 131, any person who is liable to pay financial support under this Act must pay the money so payable to the Commissioner—

  2. by way of automatic deduction under Part 10 from source deduction payments paid by an employer of the person, if the conditions in subsection (2) are met; or
    1. if those conditions are not met, by any other payment method acceptable to the Commissioner.
      1. The conditions are that—

      2. the person is, or will be, the recipient of source deduction payments from the employer; and
        1. the person chooses, in a way acceptable to the Commissioner, for deductions in respect of future payments of financial support to be made from source deduction payments paid by the employer; and
          1. the Commissioner does not consider automatic deductions inappropriate in the person’s case.
            Notes
            • Section 129: replaced, on , by section 43 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).
            • Section 129(1): amended, on , by section 40 of the Child Support Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 6).