Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHILD SUPPORT (REGISTRATION AND COLLECTION) ACT 1988 - SECT 79

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  the payee of a registered maintenance liability is:

                              (i)  paid an amount under section 76; or

                             (ii)  because of section 71AA, taken to have been paid an amount under section 76; and

                     (b)  either of the following situations apply:

                              (i)  the payee was not entitled to be paid the amount; or

                             (ii)  the amount is, because of a subsequent variation to particulars of the entry in the Child Support Register in relation to the liability, repayable by the Registrar to the payer of the liability;

the amount is repayable by the payee to the Registrar and is a debt due by the payee to the Commonwealth.

             (2)  Where, in a case falling within subsection (1), the payee is entitled to receive further payments under subsection 76(1), the amount of the debt due to the Commonwealth by the payee may be recovered by reducing such of those payments by such amount as is determined in writing by the Registrar.