South Australian Consolidated Acts

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 1972 - SECT 159

159—Collection by police of money due to Chief Executive Officer

        (1)         Subject to the provisions of a maintenance order, any member of the police force must, when so directed in writing signed by the Chief Executive Officer and countersigned by the Commissioner of Police, demand, collect, and receive from any person all sums of money due to the Chief Executive Officer for which that person is liable under any maintenance order.

        (2)         The receipt in writing of any such member of the police force is a sufficient discharge for the person from whom the money was received of his or her liability to pay that money to the Chief Executive Officer.