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Child Support Act 1991

Voluntary agreements - Procedure on application for acceptance of voluntary agreements

59: Commencement of liability under voluntary agreement

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“When payments start for voluntary child support or domestic maintenance agreements”

When the Commissioner accepts a voluntary agreement for child support or domestic maintenance, the payments start on the latest of these three dates:

  1. The day the Commissioner receives the application.

  2. If the application was first refused but later fixed, the day it was properly made.

  3. The day the agreement says the payments should start.

This means you don’t have to pay until the latest of these dates happens. For example, if you send in your application on May 1st, but the agreement says payments should start on June 1st, you won’t have to start paying until June 1st.

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Part 3 Voluntary agreements
Procedure on application for acceptance of voluntary agreements

59Commencement of liability under voluntary agreement

  1. Where the Commissioner accepts a voluntary agreement, the child support or, as the case may be, the domestic maintenance, commences to be payable from whichever is the latest of—

  2. the day on which the application is received by the Commissioner; or
    1. if the application is refused under section 57(2), the day on which the application is properly made; or
      1. the day on which, in accordance with the agreement, payment is to commence.

        Notes
        • Section 59: amended, on , by section 3 of the Child Support Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 6).
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