Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 14

  (1)   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"physically present in a remote area" has the meaning given by subsection   (2).

"remote area" means:

  (a)   those parts of Australia referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part   I of Schedule   2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act; and

  (aa)   those parts of Australia referred to in Part   II of Schedule   2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act that are more than 250 kilometres by the shortest practicable surface route from the centre point of the nearest urban centre with a census population (within the meaning of that Act) of 2,500 or more; and

  (ab)   those places in Australia that, for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act, are treated by the Commissioner for Taxation as being in a part of Australia referred to in paragraph   (aa); and

  (ac)   Norfolk Island; and

  (b)   the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and

  (c)   the Territory of Christmas Island; and

  (d)   Lord Howe Island.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a person's usual place of residence is in the remote area; and

  (b)   the person is absent from the remote area for a period;

the person is to be taken to be physically present in the remote area during:

  (c)   if the period does not exceed 8 weeks--the whole of that period; or

  (d)   if the period exceeds 8 weeks--the first 8 weeks of that period.