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Child Support Act 1991

Enforcement provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

206: Direct payment to payee

You could also call this:

“Child support payments made directly to you don't count officially”

If you receive money directly from someone who owes child support, and both of you intend this payment to cover some or all of the child support owed, the Child Support Agency won’t count it. The Agency will ignore this payment and won’t use it to reduce the amount of child support that person owes. This means that even if you get money directly, the person still needs to pay their full child support amount to the Agency.

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Part 11 Enforcement provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

206Direct payment to payee

  1. Where a payee has received, from a person who in relation to that payee is a liable person, an amount intended by both the liable person and the payee to be paid in complete or partial satisfaction of a liability of the liable person to pay financial support under this Act, the Commissioner shall disregard that payment for the purposes of this Act and the amount so paid shall not be credited by the Commissioner against the liability of the liable person to pay financial support under this Act.