Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

A court’s powers under this Act include the power to do all or any of the following:

order payment of a lump sum, whether in one amount or by instalments;

order payment of a weekly, monthly, yearly or other periodic amount;

order that a specified transfer or settlement of property be made;

order that payment of an amount ordered to be paid be wholly or partly secured as the court specifies;

order that any necessary deed or instrument be executed, and that such documents of title be produced and such other things be done, as are necessary to enable an order to be carried out effectively or to provide security for the due performance of an order;

order that payment be made to a specified person or public authority or into court;

make a permanent order, an order pending the disposal of proceedings, an order for a fixed period, an order until a child attains a specified age or an order until further order;

make an order expressed to be retrospective to such day as the court considers appropriate;

make an order:

discharging an order; or

suspending the operation of an order wholly or in part and either until further order or until a fixed time or the happening of a future event; or

reviving wholly or in part the operation of an order that has been suspended; or

varying an order in any way;

make an order imposing terms and conditions;

make an order by consent;

make any other order (whether or not of the same kind as those referred to in paragraphs (a) to (k)) that the court considers appropriate;

make an order at any time.

The making of an order of a kind referred to in paragraph (1)(c), or of any other order under this Act, in relation to a child does not prevent a court from making a subsequent order (whether under this Act or otherwise) in relation to the child.

The applicable Rules of Court may make provision with respect to the making of orders under this Act (whether as to their form or otherwise) for the purpose of facilitating their enforcement and the collection of any child support payable under them.