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Child Support Act 1991

Automatic deductions - Automatic deductions

159: Duty of payer to make deductions from money payable

You could also call this:

“Payer must take out money for child support before paying someone”

When someone owes child support, the Commissioner can tell a person who owes them money to take some of it out before paying them. This person is called a payer. The payer must take out either the amount the Commissioner says to take out, or all of the money they owe if it’s less than what the Commissioner asked for. They must do this exactly as the Commissioner tells them to. However, there are some special rules about this in section 165 that the payer needs to follow too.

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Part 10 Automatic deductions
Automatic deductions

159Duty of payer to make deductions from money payable

  1. Where the Commissioner has issued a deduction notice to any person, the person shall deduct from any money payable to the liable person such sum as is equal to the lesser of—

  2. the amount that the deduction notice requires to be so deducted at that time; or
    1. the amount of the money payable at that time.

      1. Every such deduction shall be made in accordance with the deduction notice.

      2. This section is subject to section 165.