72AADeductions from social security pensions and benefits

#### 72AA Deductions from social security pensions and benefits (1) If the payer of an enforceable maintenance liability covered by subsection 17(2) is in receipt of a social security pension or a social security benefit, the Registrar may give a written notice to the Secretary: (a) specifying the payer’s name and setting out sufficient particulars to enable the Secretary to identify the payer; and (b) instructing the Secretary to make the prescribed periodic deduction from the payer’s social security pension or social security benefit as from the specified day. (2) If: (a) a person by whom a child support debt or carer debt is due (whether before or after the commencement of this section) has not paid the debt; and (b) the person is in receipt of a social security pension or a social security benefit; the Registrar may give a written notice to the Secretary: (c) specifying the person’s name and setting out sufficient particulars to enable the Secretary to identify the person; and (d) for a child support debt—instructing the Secretary to: (i) make the prescribed periodic deduction from the person’s social security pension or social security benefit from a specified day until the debt is paid; or (ii) if the Registrar is satisfied the person is in financial hardship—make the specified lesser periodic deduction from the person’s social security pension or social security benefit from a specified day until the debt is paid; and (e) for a carer debt—instructing the Secretary to deduct an amount, determined by the Registrar, from the payer’s social security pension or social security benefit from a specified day until the debt is paid. (2A) In making a determination for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), the Registrar may determine an amount that reduces a person’s pension or benefit to nil if the person has consented to the amount of the deduction being an amount that would reduce the payment to nil. (3) A notice may be given by electronic transmission or by any other means. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply to an amount due in respect of a liability covered by section 18. (6) In this section: > social security benefit and social security pension have the same respective meanings as in the Social Security Act 1991.