66ARegistrar may reduce an assessment to nil in certain cases

66A Registrar may reduce an assessment to nil in certain cases

(1) If the Registrar has made an assessment under section 66 in respect of the annual rate of child support payable by a parent for all the children in a child support case, the Registrar may, on application made by the parent in accordance with the regulations, reduce the annual rate of child support payable by the parent for those children for a day in the child support period to nil.

Note: If the Registrar refuses to grant an application under this section, the Registrar must serve a notice on the applicant under section 66C.

(2) The Registrar must not grant an application under subsection (1) unless the Registrar is satisfied that the parent’s income (as defined in subsection (4)) for the 12 month period starting on the day on which the parent applies is less than the total of the number of the parent’s child support cases multiplied by the minimum annual rate of child support for the child support period. (3) An assessment in respect of a parent under this section applies to each day in the period to which the assessment under section 66 would have applied (see subsections 66(3) and (4)). (4) In this section:

income, in relation to a person, means:

(a) any money earned, derived or received by the parent for his or her own use or benefit, other than money earned, derived or received in a manner, or from a source, prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or
(b) a periodical payment by way of a gift or allowance, other than a payment of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.