Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 124 of 1989 - SECT 98

98. (1) Where:

   (a)  under section 95, provisions of a child support agreement have effect,
        for the purposes of Part 5, as if they were a court order of a
        particular kind; and

   (b)  the agreement, or those provisions of the agreement, are registered in
        a court having jurisdiction under this Act; the provisions may be
        discharged, suspended, revived or varied by the court in the same
        manner and in like circumstances as the court could discharge,
        suspend, revive or vary an order of that kind made by it.

(2) Where any difficulty arises in the application of subsection (1) in or in
relation to a particular proceeding, the court exercising jurisdiction in the
proceeding may, on the application of a party to the proceeding or of its own
motion, give such directions, and make such orders, as it considers
appropriate to resolve the difficulty.

(3) Subsection (1) does not limit by implication the operation of section  95.