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Child Support Act 1991

Automatic deductions - Automatic deductions

167: Deductions to be held on trust

You could also call this:

“Money taken for child support must be kept safe for the government”

When someone takes money from your pay for child support, this is called a financial support deduction. This doesn’t include any extra money taken for penalties. The person who takes this money from your pay must keep it safe. They are holding it for the government. This money doesn’t belong to the person who took it from your pay. Other people can’t take this money away from them, even if they owe money to someone else.

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Part 10 Automatic deductions
Automatic deductions

167Deductions to be held on trust

  1. For the purposes of this section, financial support deduction means a periodic deduction made by a payer in terms of section 159; but does not include any penalty imposed under this Act.

  2. The amount of every financial support deduction made by any payer under this Part shall be held in trust for the Crown, and any amount so held in trust shall not be property of the payer liable to execution.