Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 127

127. (1) This section applies if the court makes an order under section 124
that includes a statement that the child support ordered to be provided by the
liable parent is to be credited against the liable parent's liability under
any relevant administrative assessment.

(2) When the decision of the court making the order becomes final, the
Registrar must immediately take such action as is necessary to give effect to
the order in relation to any relevant administrative assessment that has been
made (whether by amending the assessment or otherwise).

(3) In subsequently making a relevant administrative assessment, the Registrar
must:

   (a)  work out what would, apart from this Division, be the annual rate of
        child support payable by the liable parent to the
        custodian entitled to child support; and

   (b)  reduce (but not below 0) that annual rate by the amount or percentage
        specified in the statement included in the order under subsection 125
        (3); and

   (c)  make the assessment on the basis of that reduced annual rate.