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A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
26ASecretary’s power to require bank account details
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#### 26A Secretary’s power to require bank account details
If:
(a) a determination is in force under which the claimant is entitled to be paid family tax benefit by instalment; and
(b) the claimant has not nominated a bank account into which instalments of family tax benefit are to be paid;
the Secretary may require the claimant to give the Secretary, within 28 days of the requirement being made, details of a bank account maintained by the claimant alone, or jointly or in common with someone else, into which instalments of family tax benefit are to be paid.