Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

Where the Minister is satisfied that a law of a State relating to the collection of periodic amounts payable for the maintenance of children makes adequate and appropriate provision for the collection of those amounts on a regular and timely basis, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the law to be a corresponding State law for the purposes of this section.

If at any time the Minister becomes satisfied that the State law no longer makes adequate and appropriate provision for the collection of periodic amounts payable for the maintenance of children on a regular and timely basis, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, revoke the declaration of the law as a corresponding State law for the purposes of this section.

It is the intention of the Parliament that the Registrar, the Secretary and the ART should have and be subject to the powers, functions, rights, liabilities and duties conferred or imposed on the Registrar, the Secretary or the ART, as the case may be, by a corresponding State law that are additional to those conferred or imposed by this Act.