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Child Support Act 1991

Automatic deductions - Miscellaneous provisions

177: Records to be kept by payer

You could also call this:

“Keeping track of child support money you collect from others”

If you’re a payer, you need to keep records of certain things. You must record and explain any money you take away from someone who owes child support payments. This is called deducting money. You also need to record other things you do related to child support payments.

You have to keep these records for at least 7 years. The records should be in English or in a way that can be easily changed into English. You need to write them so that anyone can easily understand what money was taken and what other things you did.

You must keep the records in a way that makes it easy to see all the details about the money you took and the other things you did.

However, if the Commissioner tells you that you don’t need to keep the records anymore, then you can stop keeping them.

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Part 10 Automatic deductions
Miscellaneous provisions

177Records to be kept by payer

  1. A payer shall—

  2. keep records that record and explain—
    1. all amounts deducted, or required to be deducted, from any money payable to a liable person under section 159; and
      1. other acts engaged in by the payer, or required to be engaged in by the payer, under this Part; and
      2. retain those records for a period of not less than 7 years.

        1. The records shall be kept—

        2. in writing in the English language or so as to enable the records to be readily accessible and convertible into writing in the English language; and
          1. so as to enable the matters and acts referred to in subsection (1)(a) to be readily ascertained.

            1. Nothing in this section shall require a person to retain records where the Commissioner has notified the person that retention of the records is not required.