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Child Support Act 1991

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

130: Defaulters to pay child support by automatic deduction

You could also call this:

“Money for kids is taken out of your pay if you're late paying”

If you don’t pay your child support on time, the rules change. You can no longer choose how to pay. Instead, the money will usually be taken out of your pay or bank account automatically. This is called automatic deduction. If automatic deduction doesn’t work for you, the Commissioner might let you use a different way to pay. But you have to get their okay first. These new rules will apply to all your future child support payments, not just the one you missed.

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

130Defaulters to pay child support by automatic deduction

  1. Where any person makes default in any payment of financial support under this Act,—

  2. section 129 shall cease to apply in respect of that payment and shall not apply in respect of any further payment of financial support required to be made by that person, whether in that child support year or in any future child support year; and
    1. that payment, and those further payments, of financial support are to be paid—
      1. by way of automatic deduction under Part 10; or
        1. if the Commissioner considers automatic deduction inappropriate in the person’s case, by another payment method acceptable to the Commissioner.

        Notes
        • Section 130(b): replaced, on , by section 44 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).