Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00687:reg:18:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00687
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 18 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 48107–50677

18  Interstate enforcement of affiliation and similar orders
 (1) This regulation applies to orders to which section 109 of the Act applies.
 (2) A reference in this regulation to an order made by a court shall be read as including a reference to an order made by another court on an appeal in connection with proceedings that originated in the first‑mentioned court.
 (3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person working in a place, whether temporarily or permanently, shall be deemed to be resident in that place as well as in the place in which he or she is in fact resident.
 (4) Where an order to which this regulation applies is still in force and it appears that the person against whom the order has been made is resident in, or proceeding to, a State or Territory, other than the State or Territory in which the order was made, the relevant Registrar of the court in the State or Territory in which the order was made may, of his or her own motion, or on the application of a person for whose benefit the order was made, send to a court having jurisdiction under the Act in that other State or Territory:
 (a) 3 certified copies of the order;
 (b) a certificate setting out the amounts payable and remaining unpaid under the order;
 (c) such information and material (if any) as the relevant Registrar possesses for ascertaining the identity and whereabouts of the person against whom the order has been made; and
 (d) a request in writing that the order be made enforceable in that State or Territory.
 (5) Where the relevant Registrar of a court receives the documents referred to in subregulation (4), the relevant Registrar of that court shall, if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the person against whom the order has been made is resident in or proceeding to the area over which the court has jurisdiction, register the order by filing in the court a certified copy of the order and certificate and noting the fact and date of the registration on that certified copy.
 (6) An order registered under subregulation (5) is, until the registration is cancelled, enforceable in the court in which the certified copy of the order is filed both with respect to any moneys or arrears presently payable under the order and with respect to amounts becoming due under the order after it is so registered as if it were an order made under the Act.
 (7) Upon registration under subregulation (5) of an order, the relevant Registrar of the court shall:
 (a) notify the relevant Registrar of the requesting court of the registration; and
 (b) cause a