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Child Support Act 1991

Automatic deductions - Automatic deductions

154: Deduction notice

You could also call this:

“The government can tell someone to take money from a person who owes child support”

The Commissioner can give a notice to someone to collect financial support by automatically taking money from a person who owes it. This is called a deduction notice. Here’s what the notice does:

It tells the person receiving the notice who owes the money. It gives enough details so they can identify the person who owes money.

The notice tells the person to take money from what they owe to the person who has to pay. This can be a one-time deduction or regular deductions. The notice says how much to take each day, week, fortnight, or month.

The notice also tells the person to send the money they’ve taken to the Commissioner. They have to do this in a certain way.

The Commissioner can give this notice in writing or in another way if the person agrees to it.

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Part 10 Automatic deductions
Automatic deductions

154Deduction notice

  1. The Commissioner may, for the purpose of collecting financial support by way of automatic deduction in accordance with any of sections 129 to 131, give a notice to any person—

  2. specifying the name of the liable person and other particulars of the liable person sufficient to enable the liable person to be identified by that person; and
    1. instructing that person to make, in accordance with section 159, as from a specified day, a single deduction or periodic deductions of a specified daily, weekly, fortnightly, or monthly amount from any money payable to the liable person by that person; and
      1. instructing that person to pay to the Commissioner, in accordance with section 163, amounts so deducted.

        1. Every notice under this section shall be given in writing or in any other form to which the person to whom it is directed agrees.

        Notes
        • Section 154(1): amended, on , by section 50 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).