126Recovery of amounts payable to Commonwealth

#### 126 Recovery of amounts payable to Commonwealth (1) An amount payable to the Commonwealth under this Act, including an amount of unpaid contributions, may be paid to the Commonwealth in a lump sum or in such instalments and at such times as CSC approves. (2) Where the amount of any contributions payable by a person to the Commonwealth has not been paid and benefit is payable to or in respect of the person, the amount of the unpaid contributions may be deducted from any payment or payments of that benefit. (3) An amount payable to the Commonwealth under this Act, including an amount of unpaid contributions, may be recovered by CSC, on behalf of the Commonwealth in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to the Commonwealth. (4) Where, for any reason (including the making of, or cancellation of, an election under this Act), an amount of benefit has been paid that is not payable, or has become not payable, the amount so paid may be recovered by CSC, on behalf of the Commonwealth, in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to the Commonwealth. (5) Where, for any reason (including the making of, or cancellation of, an election under this Act), an amount of benefit has been paid that is not payable, or has become not payable, and the person to whom that amount was paid is receiving, or is entitled to receive, a benefit, that amount, or such part of that amount as CSC determines, may, if CSC in its discretion so directs, be recovered by deduction from that benefit. (6) In subsections (4) and (5), benefit includes pension or other money payable under the previous legislation.