Child Support Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

        

Statutory

Rules1991No. 242 1

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Child Support Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988.

 Dated 25 July 1991.

  BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

J. KERIN

Treasurer

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Child Support Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

2.   Regulation 1 (Citation)

2.1   Omit “Child Support Regulations”, substitute “Child Support (Registration and Collection) Regulations”.

3.   Regulation 8 (Recovery of debt)

3.1   Subregulation 8 (1):

Omit “shall”, substitute “must”.

3.2   Paragraph 8 (1) (b):

Omit “a Deputy Registrar at the prescribed office”, substitute “the office of a Deputy Registrar”.

3.3   Paragraph 8 (1) (b):

Omit “in the State or Territory in which the prescribed office is situated,”.

3.4   Subregulation 8 (2):

Omit the subregulation.

3.5   Subregulation 8 (3):

Omit the subregulation.

4.   Regulation 11 (Receipts)

4.1   Omit “shall”, substitute “may”.

5.   New regulation 13

5.1   After regulation 12, insert:

Documents taken to be duly signed

“13.

(1)  A certificate, notice or other document bearing the written, stamped or printed signature of the Registrar or a delegate of the Registrar must, until the contrary is proved, be taken to have been duly signed by the person by whom it purports to be signed.

“(2)

Judicial notice must be taken of every such signature and of the fact that the person whose signature it purports to be holds or has held the office of Registrar or delegate of the Registrar, as the case may be.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 July 1991.

 

2. Statutory Rules 1988 No. 87 as amended by 1989 Nos. 51 and 258; 1990 No. 90.