Child Support (Assessment) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1222

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989.

Dated 10 June 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRISTOPHER PYNE

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Child Support (Assessment) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Amendment of Child Support (Assessment) Regulations 1989

Schedule 1 amends the Child Support (Assessment) Regulations 1989.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 11A

omit

Any

insert

(1) Any

[2] Paragraph 11A (b)

substitute

(b) if the person is a body corporate:

(i) by leaving it at the person’s address for service; or

(ii) by leaving it at, or sending it by pre-paid post to, the head office, a registered office or a principal office of the body corporate;

[3] Regulation 11A

insert

(2) For subregulation (1), if the person has consented to receiving the notice or other communication, or notices or communications of that kind, by way of electronic communication:

leaving it at the person’s address for service includes delivering the notice or other communication by means of electronic communication.

(3) In this regulation:

consent has the meaning given by section 5 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999.

electronic communication has the meaning given by section 5 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999.

[4] Regulation 11B

substitute

11B Address for service

(1) The address last notified by a person to the Registrar as the address for service of the person is, for all purposes under the Act and Regulations, that person’s address for service.

(2) If no address for service has been notified to the Registrar but the Registrar’s records nevertheless contain an address attributed to the person, the last such address in any record held by the Registrar is the person’s address for service under the Act and Regulations.

(3) For this regulation:

address for service includes both:

(a) the person’s address for the physical delivery of notices; and

(b) the person’s address for the electronic delivery of notices.