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Child Support Act 1991

Enforcement provisions - Provisions as to enforcement of financial support liability

198: Liable person doing community work to be discharged on payment

You could also call this:

“You can stop doing community work for child support debt if you pay what you owe”

If you are doing community work because you owe child support money, you can still pay the amount you owe. When you pay the full amount, the Commissioner will tell your probation officer. Your probation officer will then let you know that you don’t have to keep going to the community work centre anymore. However, if there’s another reason why you need to report to the centre, you might still have to go.

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Part 11 Enforcement provisions
Provisions as to enforcement of financial support liability

198Liable person doing community work to be discharged on payment

  1. If a liable person is doing community work under an order made under section 196(1), the person may pay, or cause to be paid, the amount due under this Act.

  2. If the liable person pays, or causes to be paid, the amount due, a probation officer, on being notified by the Commissioner of the payment of that sum, must notify the person that he or she is no longer required to report to a community work centre, unless there is some other reason for the person being required to report.

Notes
  • Section 198: substituted, on , by section 186 of the Sentencing Act 2002 (2002 No 9).