This Part provides for debts in relation to the paid parental leave scheme, and for the recovery of debts owing to the Commonwealth.

Division   2 provides for the main debts recoverable by the Commonwealth under this Act, as follows:

  (a)   overpayments or mistaken payments of parental leave pay;

  (b)   PPL funding amounts for a person that are not paid to the person as parental leave pay;

  (c)   parental leave pay or PPL funding amounts paid to the wrong person.

Division   3 allows an employee to recover, as a debt, parental leave pay due from his or her employer.

Division   4 deals with the procedure for raising a debt that is recoverable by the Commonwealth under this Act, and charging interest on the debt.

Division   5 deals with how the Commonwealth can recover debts.

Division   6 allows the Secretary to write off debts. Even if a debt is written off, it can be later recovered if circumstances change.

Division   7 allows the Secretary to waive debts in various circumstances.

Division   7A deals with when a departure prohibition order, prohibiting a person from departing from Australia for a foreign country, can be made if the person has a debt due to the Commonwealth under this Act.

Division   8 provides that debts under this Act apply in relation to matters inside and outside Australia, and to all persons irrespective of nationality or citizenship.