Section 15 — Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989: Corresponding State laws

(1) If the Minister is satisfied that a law of a State makes adequate and appropriate provision for determining the financial support payable for children, the Minister may, by Gazette notice, declare the law to be a corresponding State law. (2) If the Minister becomes satisfied that the State law no longer makes adequate and appropriate provision for determining the financial support payable for children, the Minister may, by Gazette notice, revoke the declaration of the law as a corresponding State law. (3) It is the intention of the Parliament that the Registrar should have and be subject to the powers, functions, rights, liabilities and duties conferred or imposed on the Registrar by a corresponding State law that are additional to those conferred or imposed by this Act.