Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A payee may apply to the Registrar to have a maintenance order or agreement, or a child support assessment, enforced in a reciprocating jurisdiction (other than an excepted reciprocating jurisdiction in relation to such an order, agreement or assessment).
(2) For the purpose of having a maintenance order or agreement, or a child support assessment, enforced in a reciprocating jurisdiction (other than an excepted reciprocating jurisdiction in relation to such an order, agreement or assessment) the Registrar may, at any time, and must, as soon as practicable after a payee makes an application under subsection (1):
(a) request, in writing, a judicial or administrative authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction to enforce the liability; and
(b) in a case where there is an application by a payee under subsection (1)--give the application to the authority; and
(c) give the authority such other documentation and information as is required by the authority for enforcement proceedings in that jurisdiction.
(3) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (2)(c), the Registrar must give to the judicial or administrative authority a certificate signed by the Registrar stating the amounts that are due or payable under the liability.
(4) In this section:
"excepted reciprocating jurisdiction" , in relation to a maintenance order or agreement, or a child support assessment, means a reciprocating jurisdiction that is declared by the regulations to be an excepted reciprocating jurisdiction in respect of such an order, agreement or assessment.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), a jurisdiction may be declared to be an excepted reciprocating jurisdiction, in relation to a maintenance order or agreement, or a child support assessment, only if the enforcement in the jurisdiction of such an order, agreement or assessment would not be permitted by the law of the jurisdiction.
(6) A request under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.