82Recovery of amounts due to the Commonwealth

82  Recovery of amounts due to the Commonwealth

  If:

 (a) a person (the debtor) is liable to pay an amount to the Commonwealth under this instrument; and

 (b) Comcare holds on behalf of the debtor:

 (i) money, being compensation payable under this scheme for the benefit of the debtor; or

 (ii) investments acquired out of money of a kind referred to in subparagraph (i);

Comcare must recover from the money so held, or must realise the investments so held and recover from the proceeds of the realisation, an amount not exceeding the amount referred to in paragraph (a) and the recovery of that amount is, to the extent of the amount, a discharge of the liability of the debtor to the Commonwealth and of Comcare to the debtor.