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SOCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NO JAB, NO PAY) BILL 2015

 

 

 

2013-2014-2015 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Social Services Legislation Amendment 

(No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015 

 

No.      , 2015 

 

(Social Services) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to 

family assistance, and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

Schedules ........................................................................................... 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to 

family assistance, and for related purposes 

The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

1  Short title 

 

  This Act may be cited as the Social Services Legislation 

Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Act 2015

2  Commencement 

 

(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provisions 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

1 January 2016. 

1 January 2016 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

this Act. 

 

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

3  Schedules 

 

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

   

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 

1  Subsection 3(1) (definition of conscientious objection

Repeal the definition. 

2  Subsection 3(1) 

Insert: 

general practitioner has the same meaning as in the Health 

Insurance Act 1973

3  Section 5 

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Repeal the section. 

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4  Subsections 6(3) to (8) 

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Repeal the subsections, substitute: 

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Medical contraindication, natural immunity and vaccine study 

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(3)  The child meets the immunisation requirements if: 

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(a)  a general practitioner has certified in writing that the 

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immunisation of the child would be medically 

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contraindicated under the specifications set out in the 

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Australian Immunisation Handbook; or 

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(b)  a general practitioner has certified in writing that the child 

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does not require immunisation because the child has 

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contracted a disease or diseases and as a result has developed 

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a natural immunity; or 

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(c)  the child is a participant in a vaccine study approved by a 

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Human Research Ethics Committee registered with the 

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National Health and Medical Research Council. 

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Temporary unavailability of vaccine 

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(4)  The child meets the immunisation requirements if: 

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(a)  the child has not received a vaccination at a particular age; 

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and 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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(b)  the person who occupies, or is acting in, the position of 

Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer has certified in 

writing that the vaccine for that vaccination is, or all of the 

vaccines for that vaccination are, temporarily unavailable; 

and 

 

(c)  if that vaccine, or one of those vaccines, had been available, 

the Secretary is satisfied that the child would have been 

immunised; and 

 

(d)  that vaccine has not, or none of those vaccines have, become 

available. 

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Child vaccinated overseas 

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(5)  The child meets the immunisation requirements if: 

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(a)  the child has received one or more vaccinations while outside 

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Australia; and 

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(b)  a recognised immunisation provider has certified in writing 

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that those vaccinations have provided the child with the same 

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level of immunisation that the child would have acquired if 

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the child had been vaccinated in accordance with a standard 

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vaccination schedule, or a catch up vaccination schedule, 

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determined under section 4; and 

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(c)  the child has received, whether in or outside Australia, all the 

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other vaccinations in accordance with a standard vaccination 

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schedule, or a catch up vaccination schedule, determined 

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under section 4. 

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Secretary's decision 

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(6)  The child meets the immunisation requirements if the Secretary 

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determines in writing that the child meets the immunisation 

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requirements. 

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(7)  In making a determination under subsection (6), the Secretary must 

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comply with any decision-making principles set out in a legislative 

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instrument made by the Minister for the purposes of this 

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subsection. 

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5  Section 7 

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Repeal the section. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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6  Paragraph 42(1)(c) 

Omit "under 7 and born on or after 1 January 1996", substitute "under 

20". 

7  After subsection 42(1) 

Insert: 

 

(1AA)  Subparagraphs (1)(c)(ii) and (iii) do not apply in relation to an 

individual in connection with the Secretary determining a claim by 

the individual for payment of child care benefit by fee reduction 

for care provided by an approved child care service. 

8  Subsection 44(2) 

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Omit "under 7 and is born on or after 1 January 1996", substitute "under 

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20". 

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9  Subsection 45(2) 

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Repeal the subsection, substitute: 

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Requirement relating to immunisation referred to in 

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paragraph (1)(g) 

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(2)  For the purposes of paragraph (1)(g), the requirement relating to 

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immunisation is that, if the child is under 20, the child must meet 

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the immunisation requirements set out in section 6. 

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10  At the end of subsection 47(1) 

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Add: 

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; and (c)  the child meets the immunisation requirements set out in 

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section 6. 

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11  Subsection 61B(1) 

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After "in an income year", insert "(the current income year)". 

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12  Paragraph 61B(1)(a) 

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Repeal the paragraph, substitute: 

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(a)  the income year is: 

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(i)  the income year in which the FTB child turned 1; or 

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(ii)  any later income year; and 

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13  Subsection 61B(2) 

After "in an income year", insert "(the current income year)". 

14  Paragraph 61B(2)(a) 

Repeal the paragraph, substitute: 

 

(a)  the income year is: 

 

(i)  the income year in which the FTB child turned 1; or 

 

(ii)  any later income year; and 

15  Paragraph 61B(3)(a) 

Omit "income year in which the FTB child turned 1, 2 or 5 (as the case 

requires)", substitute "current income year". 

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16  Subparagraph 61B(3A)(a)(iii) 

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Omit "income year in which the FTB child turned 1, 2 or 5 (as the case 

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requires)", substitute "current income year". 

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17  Paragraph 61B(3A)(b) 

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Omit "income year in which the FTB child turned 1, 2 or 5 (as the case 

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requires)", substitute "current income year". 

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18  Paragraph 61B(4)(a) 

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Omit "income year in which the FTB child turned 1, 2 or 5 (as the case 

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requires)", substitute "current income year". 

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19  Application and transitional provisions 

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(1) 

The amendments made by this Schedule apply: 

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(a)  in relation to working out whether FTB Part A supplement is 

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to be added, in working out an individual's Part A rate of 

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family tax benefit, for a day on or after the commencement of 

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this item; and 

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(b)  in relation to working out whether an individual, or an 

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approved child care service, is eligible for child care benefit 

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for care provided to a child on a day on or after the 

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commencement of this item. 

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(2) 

A certification mentioned in subsection 6(5) or (6) of the A New Tax 

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System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 (as in force immediately before 

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the commencement of this item) that had effect immediately before that 

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commencement is taken, on and after that commencement, to be a 

certification of a general practitioner for the purposes of 

paragraph 6(3)(a) or (b) of that Act (as amended by this Act), as the 

case requires. 

(3) 

Sections 6 and 7 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 

1999, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, 

do not apply on or after that commencement in relation to days before 

that commencement. 

Note: 

Subitem (3) means, for example, that on or after the commencement of this item, an 

individual cannot make a declaration under section 6 of that Act that he or she has a 

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conscientious objection to a child being immunised. 

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