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SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (DIGITAL TELEVISION SWITCH-OVER) BILL 2009
2008-2009
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Social Security Legislation Amendment
(Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2009
No. , 2009
(Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security
(Administration) Act 1999, and for related purposes
i Social Security Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2009 No.
, 2009
Contents
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Short title ............................................................................................ 1
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Commencement .................................................................................. 1
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Schedule(s) ......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendme nts
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Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
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Social Security Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2009 No. ,
2009 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security
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(Administration) Act 1999, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Social Security Legislation
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Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Act 2009.
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2 Commence ment
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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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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No. , 2009
Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day on which this Act receives the
Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be
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expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
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(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not
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part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or
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edited in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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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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Amend ments Schedule 1
Social Security Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2009 No. ,
2009 3
Schedule 1
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Amendments
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Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
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1 Subsection 202(1)
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Omit "or the Family Homelessness Prevention and Early Intervention
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Pilot", substitute ", the Family Homelessness Prevention and Early
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Intervention Pilot or the Digital Switch-over Household Assistance
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Program".
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2 After paragraph 202(2)(da)
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Insert:
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(db) for the purposes of the Digital Switch-over Household
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Assistance Program; or
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3 Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1
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Insert:
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Digital Switch-over Household Assistance Program means the
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program that:
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(a) is administered by the Commonwealth; and
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(b) involves the provision and/or installation of any or all of the
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following:
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(i) set-top boxes;
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(ii) cables;
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(iii) antennas;
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for the purposes of enabling the members of certain
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households to view television programs transmitted in digital
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mode (within the meaning of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting
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Services Act 1992).
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