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(1) This section applies to an amount that is to be paid to a person under paragraph 123WL(3)(a) or (b).

Payment into bank account etc.

(2) The amount is to be paid to the credit of a bank account kept by the person.

(3) The bank account may be kept by the person either alone or jointly or in common with another person.

(4) The Secretary may direct that the whole or a part of the amount be paid to the person in a different way from that provided for by subsection (2).

(5) If the Secretary gives a direction under subsection (4), the amount is to be paid in accordance with the direction.

123WN  Crediting of amounts to income management accounts—Ministerial rules

The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules providing that an amount ascertained in accordance with the rules is to be credited to:

(a) the Income Management Record; and

(b) a person’s income management account;

in the circumstances specified in the rules.

Division 5—Deductions from welfare payments

Subdivision B—Child protection

123XI  Deductions from category I welfare payments—instalments

Scope

(1) This section applies if:

(a) a person is subject to the income management regime under section 123UC; and

(b) an instalment of a category I welfare payment is payable to the person.

Deductions from category I welfare payments—instalments

(2) The following provisions have effect:

(a) the Secretary must deduct from the instalment of the category I welfare payment the deductible portion of the instalment;

(b) an amount equal to the deductible portion of the instalment is credited to the Income Management Record;

(c) an amount equal to the deductible portion of the instalment is credited to the person’s income management account.

Deductible portion

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the deductible portion of an instalment of a category I welfare payment is:

(a) 100%; or

(b) if a lower percentage is specified in a legislative instrument made by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph—the lower percentage;

of the net amount of the instalment (rounded down to the nearest cent).

(4) An instrument under paragraph (3)(b) may specify different percentages in relation to different category I welfare payments.

123XJ  Deductions from category I welfare payments—lump sums

Scope

(1) This section applies if:

(a) a person is subject to the income management regime under section 123UC; and