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obtain and provide to the requesting Central Authority any information necessary or convenient for the operation of this Agreement or for the laws of the Contracting States relating to maintenance, including:

       (a) information on the whereabouts of a payer; or
       (b) information about the income, earning capacity, property, financial resources or commitments of a child, a payer or payee.

2 Any information about an individual which is transmitted in accordance with this Agreement to an administrative or judicial authority of a Contracting State:

       (a) is confidential; and

       (b) shall be used only for the purposes of implementing this Agreement and the laws of the Contracting States relating to maintenance; and

       (c) shall be disclosed only if disclosure is required or permitted under the laws of the Contracting State.

3 In no case shall the provisions of this Article be construed so as to impose on the administrative or judicial authorities of a Contracting State the obligation to obtain information which is not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of administration of those authorities.

4 At any time the Contracting Parties may determine that communication between the Contracting States, including exchange of information, may be conducted by electronic data transfer.

PART X
SERVICE ARRANGEMENT

Article 24
Service Arrangement

1 The Child Support Registrar for Australia and the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for New Zealand may enter an arrangement (hereinafter referred to as the Service Arrangement) to facilitate the implementation of this Agreement.

2 The matters which may be dealt with in the Service Arrangement include but are not limited to:

       (a) the procedures to be adopted by administrative authorities in the Contracting States in identifying and resolving cases of conflict in jurisdiction between the administrative or judicial authorities of one State and the administrative or judicial authorities of the other State;

       (b) the exchange of information between authorities of the Contracting States and the protection of the privacy of the subjects of such information;

       (c) the location of payers and the service of documents on payers;

       (d) the making of determinations as to the income, earning capacity, property, financial resources or commitments of a child, a payer or payee;

       (e) the making of child support assessments and other decisions;

       (f) procedures for the recognition and enforcement of decisions to which this Agreement applies;

       (g) procedures for the collection and disbursement of monies payable under decisions and penalties to which this Agreement applies;

       (h) procedures for determining applications by payers and payees for the suspension, modification or revocation of decisions to which this Agreement applies;

       (i) parentage testing;

       (j) evaluation of the operation of this Agreement and the Service Arrangement;

       (k) the provision of information and advice to payers