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Child Support Act 1991

Transitional and savings provisions - Enforcement of maintenance liabilities payable before 1 July 1992

259: Savings in respect of outstanding maintenance liabilities

You could also call this:

"Rules for collecting unpaid family support money from before July 1992"

This law is about how to deal with unpaid maintenance (money someone was supposed to pay to support their family) from before 1 July 1992. Even though some laws have changed, the old rules still apply to collect this money.

If someone owed maintenance money before 1 July 1992 and hasn't paid it, the government can still use the old rules to make them pay. These old rules are found in different parts of the Family Proceedings Act 1980.

The law also explains what "maintenance order" means. It uses the same meaning as it did in the Family Proceedings Act 1980 before it was changed.

This helps make sure that people who were supposed to pay maintenance in the past can't avoid paying just because the laws have changed.

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Part 16Transitional and savings provisions
Enforcement of maintenance liabilities payable before 1 July 1992

259Savings in respect of outstanding maintenance liabilities

  1. Notwithstanding the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1991,—

  2. sections 2, 6, 7, and Parts 6 and 7 (except section 101) of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 (as amended by this Part) shall continue to apply; and
    1. section 101 and section 101A of that Act (as substituted by section 254 of this Act) and section 101B of that Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1997) shall continue to apply,—
        1. in respect of the enforcement of the liability of any person to pay maintenance under that Act which is due but unpaid at the close of 30 June 1992 under a maintenance order as if those sections and those Parts had not been amended or repealed by the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1991.

      1. In this section, maintenance order has the same meaning as it had in section 2 of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 immediately before the amendment of that definition by the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1991.

      Notes
      • Section 259(1)(a): amended, on , by section 3(a) of the Child Support Amendment Act (No 2) 1997 (1997 No 67).
      • Section 259(1)(b): amended, on , by section 3(b) of the Child Support Amendment Act (No 2) 1997 (1997 No 67).