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Child Support Act 1991

Transitional and savings provisions - Child maintenance liabilities after 1 July 1992 under existing court orders and registered agreements

262: Expiry of certain suspended child maintenance orders and agreements

You could also call this:

“When certain old child support orders and agreements end”

This law is about certain child maintenance orders and agreements that were made before 1 July 1992. These orders and agreements were suspended and couldn’t be enforced because of a rule in the Social Security Act.

If you had a maintenance order that was made before 1 July 1992 and required payments for a child’s maintenance, and it was suspended on 30 June 1992, it will no longer be in force after that date.

The same applies to maintenance agreements. If you had a maintenance agreement that was registered and treated like a maintenance order, and it was suspended on 30 June 1992, it will no longer be registered under the Family Proceedings Act after that date.

This law essentially ends these suspended orders and agreements, so they won’t have any effect after 30 June 1992.

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Part 16 Transitional and savings provisions
Child maintenance liabilities after 1 July 1992 under existing court orders and registered agreements

262Expiry of certain suspended child maintenance orders and agreements

  1. Every maintenance order—

  2. which is made before 1 July 1992 under Part 6 of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 requiring payments to be made towards the maintenance of any child; and
    1. which is, as at the close of 30 June 1992, suspended and unenforceable by reason of the operation of section 27J of the Social Security Act 1964,—
        1. shall cease to remain in force at the close of the 30 June 1992.

      1. Every maintenance agreement,—

      2. which is registered under section 83 of the Family Proceedings Act 1980 and which has effect as a maintenance order under section 84 of that Act; and
        1. which is, as at the close of 30 June 1992, suspended and unenforceable by reason of the operation of section 27J of the Social Security Act 1964,—
            1. shall cease to be registered under the Family Proceedings Act 1980 at the close of 30 June 1992.