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Child Support Act 1991

Payment of financial support - Payments by Commissioner

147: Unremitted deductions made by employers or PAYE intermediaries

You could also call this:

“Money taken from pay for child support counts even if the boss is late sending it”

When someone who owes child support has money taken out of their pay, this is called a deduction. The person who takes this money out (like your boss) is supposed to send it to the Commissioner by the 20th day of the next month. Even if they don’t send it in time, the Commissioner will act as if they did get the money on time. This helps make sure that your child support payments are counted correctly, even if your employer is late in sending the money.

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Part 9 Payment of financial support
Payments by Commissioner

147Unremitted deductions made by employers or PAYE intermediaries

  1. Where—

  2. the Commissioner is satisfied that a deduction has been made in any month by any person from money payable to a liable person under any provision of Part 10; and
    1. the amount of the deduction is not paid to the Commissioner by the person on or before the 20th day of the following month,—
        1. the amount of that deduction shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been received by the Commissioner on or before the 20th day of the following month.

      Notes
      • Section 147 heading: amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Child Support Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 8).
      • Section 147: amended, on , by section 10 of the Child Support Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 74).