Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme - New Formula and Other Measures) Act 2006 (146 of 2006)

Schedule 2   Consequential amendments and application and saving provisions relating to the formulas

Part 1   Consequential amendments

Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

74   Section 34

Repeal the section, substitute:

34 Notices to be given in respect of application

(1) If the Registrar accepts an application for administrative assessment of child support for a child, the Registrar must notify the applicant and any parent who is to be assessed in respect of the costs of the child.

(2) The notice must include, or be accompanied by, a statement to the effect that:

(a) a person who is to be assessed in respect of the costs of the child may apply to a court having jurisdiction under this Act for a declaration under section 107 that the applicant was not entitled to administrative assessment of child support for the child because the person is not a parent of the child; and

(b) in any case:

(i) the person, may, subject to the Registration and Collection Act, object to the decision (the original decision ) (other than because the person is not a parent of the child); and

(ii) the person, if aggrieved by a later decision on an objection in relation to the original decision (no matter who lodges the objection), may, subject to that Act, apply to the SSAT for review of the later decision.