Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a person is liable to pay a debt under section 56 of the Farm Household Support Act 1992 ; and
(b) the person is receiving drought relief payment under that Act;
the debt is to be deducted from that payment or support in the following way:
Method statement
Step 1. Take the amount, decided under subsection (2), by which each instalment of that payment or support is to be reduced.
Step 2. Each instalment of that payment or support is to be reduced by that amount, until the sum of those amounts is equal to the debt.
(2) The Secretary is to decide in each case the amount by which each instalment of the exceptional circumstances relief payment or the farm help income support is to be reduced, and may vary the amount from time to time.
(3) The debt must be deducted in accordance with this section unless:
(a) the Secretary takes action under Part 5.4 (write off and waiver) in relation to the amount; or
(b) the amount is otherwise recovered by the Commonwealth under another provision of this Chapter.
(4) A claim under this section for the recovery of a debt is not to be commenced after the end of the period of 6 years starting on the day on which the debt arose.
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