Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00813:section:19
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00813
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19
Character Range: 80672–81928

19  Exclusion of liabilities by regulation
 (1) The regulations may provide that specified liabilities, or liabilities included in specified classes of liabilities, are not registrable maintenance liabilities.
 (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may:
 (a) make different provision for the purposes of section 17, 17A, 18 or 18A; and
 (b) specify liabilities, or a class of liabilities, by reference to all or any of the following:
 (i) when the assessments, orders or agreements under which the liabilities arose were made, registered, approved or sanctioned, as the case may be;
 (ii) characteristics of the persons to whom the liabilities relate, including:
 (A) if those persons are children, their dates of birth and, if applicable, when their parents separated;
 (B) if those persons are not children, their ages and whether or not they are in receipt of an income tested pension, allowance or benefit;
 (iii) whether or not the liabilities are collection agency maintenance liabilities of a State or Territory;
 (iv) whether or not the liabilities arose under orders made under section 139 of the Assessment Act or section 66Q or 77 of the Family Law Act 1975.

Division 2—Registration of maintenance liabilities