Section 109 — Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989: Pending application not to affect assessment

(1) Subject to section 111C of the Registration and Collection Act (Stay orders), the fact that a proceeding is pending under this Division in relation to a person does not, in the meantime, interfere with, or affect, any administrative assessment made in relation to the person, and any such assessment may be registered under the Registration and Collection Act, and amounts of child support and other amounts recovered in relation to the assessment, as if no proceeding were pending. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a person in relation to a child if: (a) the person has made an application under section 107 in relation to the child; and (c) there is not a decision of a court determining that ground of the application that has become final. (3) Subsection (2) does not apply in or in relation to the Territories and only extends to a State at a particular time if this Act does not, at that time, extend to the State because of subsection 13(1) or (2).