Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a debtor has been convicted of an offence that gave rise to a proportion of a debt; and
(b) the court indicated in sentencing the debtor that it imposed a longer custodial sentence on the debtor because he or she was unable or unwilling to pay the debt;
the Secretary must waive the right to recover the proportion of the debt that arose in connection with the offence.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a proportion of a debt may be 100% of the debt.