Section 124 — Paid Parental Leave Act 2010: Purposes for which tax file numbers may be used

(1) Subsection (2) applies to the tax file number of a person that is provided to the Secretary: (a) under a provision of this Act, for the purposes of this Act: (i) by the person; or (ii) by the partner of the person; or (iii) by the Commissioner of Taxation on the authority of the person; or (b) by the Commissioner of Taxation under section 123. (2) A tax file number provided to the Secretary as referred to in subsection (1) may be used only for the following purposes: (a) to detect cases in which instalments of parental leave pay have been paid when they should not have been paid; (b) to verify, in relation to persons who have made effective claims for parental leave pay, the eligibility of those persons for that pay.