Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

The purposes of the Account are:

to make payments under subsection 69B(3) to payees of carer liabilities; and

to make payments under subsection 76(1) to payees of registered maintenance liabilities; and

to make payments to the payees of enforceable maintenance liabilities of amounts received from the payers of the liabilities as voluntary payments for transmission to the payees; and

to make other payments that the Registrar has determined for the purposes of this Act are payable to persons in respect of child support.

Amounts received from employers and payers of enforceable maintenance liabilities, in relation to cases in which amounts have been credited to the Account under section 77 or subsection 78(3), may be debited from the Account.