Child Support (Registration and Collection) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1232

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 (Registration and Collection) Act 1988.

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 (Registration and Collection) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Child Support (Registration and Collection) Regulations 1988

  Schedule 1 amends the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Regulations 1988.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Subregulation 6 (1)

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 (1) For the purposes of subsection 76 (2) of the Act, the following amounts are prescribed:

 (a) for a payment made to an address, or an account, in Australia — $5;

 (b) for a payment made to an account in another country, through an arrangement between Australia and that country under which amounts are transferred to a central authority of that country for payment, in accordance with section 76 of the Act, by electronic transfer — $5;

 (c) in any other case — $50.

[2] Paragraph 6 (2) (b)

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are payable

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are expected to be payable

[3] Regulation 14

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Any

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 (1) Any

[4] Paragraph 14 (b)

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 (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;

[5] Regulation 14

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 (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.

[6] Regulation 15

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15 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.

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1988 No. 87, as amended by 1989 Nos. 51 and 258; 1990 No. 90; 1991 No. 242; 1994 Nos. 128 and 197; 1995 No. 178; 1997 No. 171; 1999 No. 104; 2001 Nos. 66 and 205; 2004 No. 45.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 June 2004.