Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILD SUPPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 151 of 1992 - SECT 16

16. After section 61 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Effect of election after 30 June 1993

"61A.(1) If a person makes an election under section 60 for a child support
year beginning after 30 June 1993, the person's child support income amount in
relation to the days in the child support year is to be determined in
accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this section.

"(2) Without limiting the power to make regulations for the purposes of
subsection (1), the regulations may provide for determining different amounts
before and after a date in the child support year determined in accordance
with the regulations.

"(3) If an income amount order made after the making of the election applies
in relation to the person and any part of the child support year, subsection
(1) has effect subject to the order.

"(4) The Registrar must immediately take such action as is necessary to give
effect to subsection (1) in relation to any administrative assessment that has
been made in relation to the person and the child support year (whether by
amending the assessment or otherwise).

"(5) Subject to section 63A, in subsequently making any administrative
assessment in relation to the person and the child support year, the Registrar
must act in accordance with this section.

"(6) This section does not prevent:

   (a)  a court making any order under Division 4 of Part 7 (Orders for
        departure from administrative assessment in special circumstances); or

   (b)  the making, and acceptance by the Registrar, of a child support
        agreement that includes provisions that have effect, for the purposes
        of this Part, as if they were such an order made by consent.".