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PubMed1988

Child Support Act 1988 (No. 3 of 1988), 9 March 1988.

This Act provides for the collection of certain periodic maintenance payments in Australia. The goals of the Act are "1) that children receive from their parents the financial support that the parents are liable to provide and 2) that periodic amounts payable by noncustodial parents towards the maintenance of their children are paid on a regular and timely basis." In order to achieve these goals, the Act establishes a Child Support Agency and a system for registration of child support obligations. Such obligations, whether created by court orders or maintenance agreements, are to be entered by the Commissioner of Taxation in a Register and are to be deducted from the salary of the noncustodial parent by that parent's employer in the same manner as other deductions. Such monies are then to be paid to the custodial parent by the Department of Social Security. Appeals with respect to entries in the Register are to be made to the Family Court or other authorized courts.

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PubMed1988

Nursing Homes and Hostels Legislation Amendment Act 1987 (No. 72 of 1987), 5 June 1987.

Among other things, this Act amends the Australia National Health Act 1953 to include within its coverage nursing homes for disabled people, to authorize the competent minister to declare that a nursing home patient is no longer an approved patient, to authorize the minister to determine a standard ordinary care fee for each approved nursing home and set a formula for making this determination, to authorize the minister to determine standards to be observed for the provision of services in approved nursing homes and to withhold funds from nursing homes not meeting these standards, to authorize the minister to make advance payments of benefits to nursing homes, and to increase certain penalties relating to the provision of information by nursing homes.

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Migration Amendment Act 1987 (No. 133 of 1987), 16 December 1987.

This Act does the following, among other things: 1) requires that certain requests relating to entry permits, visas, and return endorsements are not considered to have been made unless in writing in accordance with the relevant approved forms and unless any fee payable has been made; 2) makes "operators," as well as charterers, liable for the carriage of persons to Australia without documentation; and 3) provides that international air operators shall pay immigration clearance fees payable by passengers whether or not the operator has collected the fees from the passengers.

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PubMed1988

Family Law Amendment Act (No. 72 of 1983), 28 October 1983.

This Act contains the following provision relating to the status of children born in Australia as the result of assisted reproduction: "Certain children deemed to be children of mother's husband. 5A. 1) A child born to a woman as a result of the carrying out, during the period in which the woman was married to a man, of a medical procedure in relation to that woman, being a child who is not biologically the child of that man, shall, for the purposes of section 5, be deemed to be a child of that man if (a) the medical procedure was carried out with the consent of that man; or (b) under an Act or under a law of a State or Territory the child is deemed to be the child of that man. 2) The provisions of this section apply in relation to a purported marriage that is void as if the purported marriage were a marriage and as if the parties to the purported marriage were husband and wife. 3) In this section, 'medical procedure' means artificial insemination or the implantation of an embryo in the body of a woman."

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