Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998 (Application and Transitional) Regulations 1999
Statutory Rules 1999    No. 57
I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998.
Dated 31 March 1999.
WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
jocelyn newman
Minister for Family and Community Services 

Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998 (Application and Transitional) Regulations 1999
Statutory Rules 1999    No. 571
made under the
Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998

Contents
	Page
	1	Name of regulations	
	2	Commencement	
	3	Definition	
	4	Application — certain amendments (Act, s 4 (2))	
	5	Transitional — certain amendments (Act, s 5 (2))	

1	Name of regulations
		These regulations are the Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998 (Application and Transitional) Regulations 1999.
2	Commencement
		These regulations commence on gazettal.
3	Definition
		In these regulations:
Act means the Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 1998.
4	Application — certain amendments (Act, s 4 (2))
		For subsection 4 (2) of the Act, the prescribed day is 1 July 1999. 
Note   Subsection 4 (2) of the Act states:
	(2)	The amendments made by Schedules 6 and 19 do not apply to
applications for administrative assessment made before the
prescribed day.
5	Transitional — certain amendments (Act, s 5 (2))
	(1)	The amendments made to the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 by items 4 and 34 of Schedule 16 to the Act do not apply to an administrative assessment for a child support period commencing on or before 1 July 1999.
Note 1   Item 4 of Schedule 16 to the Act repealed and substituted the definition of last relevant year of income in section 5 of the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989.  
Note 2   Item 34 of that Schedule repealed section 55 of the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989.
	(2)	For a child support period commencing on or before 1 July 1999, section 55 of the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 continues to apply as modified below:
		In working out a person’s child support income amount in relation to a child support period commencing on or before 1 July 1999, the person’s taxable income under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 or the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 for the 1997-98 year of income is to be multiplied by 1.04.
Note
1.	Made by the Governor-General on 31 March 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 April 1999.