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Child Support Act 1991

General provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

236: Changes in published statistics to be disregarded

You could also call this:

“Ignoring small changes in money numbers for child support”

This law talks about how Statistics New Zealand publishes some important numbers. These numbers are about how much money people earn on average each week and how much things cost. Sometimes, Statistics New Zealand might need to fix a mistake in these numbers.

If they fix a mistake after January 1st, just before a new child support year starts, you don’t need to worry about the change. This applies to two specific situations:

  1. If the fix is about how much people earn, and the original numbers were from mid-February before the most recent tax year started.

  2. If the fix is about how much things cost, and the original numbers were for the year ending on December 31st before the child support year began.

In these cases, you can ignore the corrections when dealing with child support matters. This helps keep things simple and consistent for everyone involved.

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Part 14 General provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

236Changes in published statistics to be disregarded

  1. This section applies to publication by Statistics New Zealand of—

  2. the ordinary time average weekly earnings (for males and females combined) or any measure certified by the Government Statistician as being equivalent to that index; or
    1. the index number of the Consumers Price Index.

      1. A correction to those statistics that is published by that department must be disregarded for the purposes of this Act if—

      2. the correction is published at any time after 1 January immediately preceding the start of a child support year; and
        1. the statistics corrected are—
          1. as at mid-February immediately preceding the start of the most recent tax year in relation to the ordinary time average weekly earnings (for males and females combined); or
            1. for the year ending on 31 December immediately preceding the start of the child support year in relation to the index number of the Consumers Price Index.

            Notes
            • Section 236: substituted, on , by section 36(1) of the Child Support Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 81).
            • Section 236(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 2(7) of the Statistics Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 159).
            • Section 236(1)(a): amended, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).
            • Section 236(1)(b): amended, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).
            • Section 236(2)(b)(i): amended, on (effective for 2005–06 tax year and later), by section YA 2 of the Income Tax Act 2004 (2004 No 35).
            • Section 236(2)(b)(ii): amended, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).