Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00582:section:164
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00582
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 164
Character Range: 268766–270288

164  Guide to this Part

      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.

Division 2—Main debts recoverable under this Act