Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Act 2018 (36 of 2018)

Schedule 1   Child support amendments

Part 4   Overpayments

Division 2   Application provisions

172   Application - overpayment amendments

(1) This item applies in relation to the following amendments made by this Part:

(a) the amendments of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999;

(b) the amendments of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988.

(2) The amendments (except section 69B of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) 1988) apply in relation to any liability to pay a debt that is payable after the commencement of this item, whether the debt arises before or after that commencement.

(3) Section 69B of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) 1988 applies in relation to debts that arise after the commencement of this item.

(4) A debt that arose before the commencement of this item under section 79 of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 that is due and payable immediately before that commencement is taken, after that commencement, to have arisen under section 69B of that Act (as inserted by this Part).

(5) The amendments of sections 74 and 75 of that Act apply in relation to any amounts received, and payments made, after the commencement of this item.