A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

PART 9 - OTHER MATTERS  

SECTION 227   Payment of deductions to Child Support Registrar  

227(1)    
The Secretary must, in accordance with a notice given to the Secretary under subsection 72AB(3) of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 in relation to a person:

(a) make deductions from instalment amounts of family tax benefit that the person is entitled to be paid under section 23 ; or

(b) make a deduction from an amount of family tax benefit that the person is entitled to be paid under section 24 ; and pay amounts so deducted to the Child Support Registrar.

227(2)    
However, the Secretary must not deduct an amount under subsection (1) in contravention of section 228 .

227(3)    

If the Secretary deducts an amount under subsection (1), then:

(a) on the day the amount is deducted, the total amount of the child support debts or carer debts of the person (being debts referred to in subsection 72AB(2) of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 ) is taken to be reduced by an amount equal to the amount deducted; and

(b) on the day the amount is deducted, the person is taken to have been paid an amount of family tax benefit equal to the amount deducted.

227(4)    
A deduction under subsection (1) may result in the family tax benefit that the person is entitled to be paid being reduced to nil.