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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 6 Hansard (22 June) . . Page.. 1639 ..

(3) Bank direct debit

Centrelink deduction

EFTPOS at Austouch kiosks

Personal payments at Government shopfronts

Mail payment (cheque)

In addition, investigations are being undertaken into the provision of Bpay as a payment option.

(4) Yes.

(a) The Direct Debit Authority signed by the tenant strictly limits the deduction of agreed amounts from their bank account to be paid to ACT Housing.

(b) None. If, however, there are insufficient funds in the tenant's account

when the bank makes the deduction they may attract a dishonour fee. It is

understood that each bank, credit union and building society has independent

policies regarding charging dishonour fees in these instances.

(5) Of the 146,000 transactions processed at shopfronts during March and April 1999, there

have been 47 official complaints about the queue waiting times at shopfronts for the

same period.

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