Child Support Act 1991

Automatic deductions - Automatic deductions

164: Discharge of liable person's liability to Commissioner and payer's liability to liable person

You could also call this:

“Taking child support money from your pay means you don't have to pay it yourself”

When someone takes money from your pay for child support, two things happen. First, you don’t have to pay that amount to the government anymore because it’s already been taken out. Second, the person who took the money from your pay doesn’t have to give that money to anyone else except the government. This means the money goes straight to child support and you don’t have to worry about paying it yourself.

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Part 10 Automatic deductions
Automatic deductions

164Discharge of liable person's liability to Commissioner and payer's liability to liable person

  1. Where a payer deducts an amount under this Part from any money payable to a liable person,—

  2. the liable person is, to the extent of the amount deducted, discharged from the liable person's liability to make payments to the Commissioner under the liability; and
    1. the payer is discharged from liability to pay the amount to any person other than the Commissioner.