Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 182

    A debt is recoverable by the Commonwealth from a person by one or more of the following means:

  (a)   legal proceedings (see section   183);

  (b)   garnishee notice (see section   184);

  (c)   debt payment arrangements (see section   190);

  (ca)   deductions from instalments payable to the person as determined by the Secretary (see section   190A);

  (d)   deductions from instalments payable to another person for the same child (see section   191);

  (e)   recovery from an ADI, if the debt arises from a payment to the wrong person, or the amount is to be recovered from a deceased estate (see section   192);

  (f)   deduction or setting off in relation to a payment to which the debtor (or another person) is entitled under another Act, but only if the other Act expressly provides for recovery of the debt by such deduction or setting off.

Note:   A debt can be recovered by deduction or set off in relation to other payments as follows:

(a)   sections   84 and 92 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 (which deal with family tax benefit);

(b)   sections   84A and 92A of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 (which deal with family assistance);

(c)   sections   1231 and 1234A of the Social Security Act (which deal with social security payments).

(d)   section   205 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (which deals with pensions, allowances and other payments).