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Child Support Act 1991

Collection of financial support - Due dates for payment of financial support

133: Alteration to first due date where notice of assessment issued

You could also call this:

“Changing when you start paying child support after getting a notice”

When the Commissioner sends you a notice about how much financial support you need to pay, you have some time to make your first payment. You can pay on the original due date or 30 days after you get the notice, whichever is later. This gives you extra time if you need it.

This rule doesn’t apply if the Commissioner changes your assessment later on. In that case, different rules apply.

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Part 8 Collection of financial support
Due dates for payment of financial support

133Alteration to first due date where notice of assessment issued

  1. Where the Commissioner issues a notice of assessment of financial support payable by a liable person, the first amount of that financial support that is required to be paid by that liable person after that notice of assessment is issued is a debt that is due and payable on the later of—

  2. the day on which that amount would, but for this section, be payable by the liable person; or
    1. the day that is 30 days after the date of issue of that notice of assessment.

      1. This section does not apply in respect of an amended assessment to which the provisions of section 87(6) apply.