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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 917H

Non - receipt of social security payment

  (1)   This section applies for the purposes of a provision of this or another Act if:

  (a)   the provision provides a benefit (whether the benefit is a pension, benefit, payment, supplement or any other sort of benefit) if a person meets specified criteria; and

  (b)   one of the specified criteria is that the person is receiving a social security payment, or is a recipient of a social security payment.

  (2)   For the purposes of the provision, a person is not taken to be receiving a social security payment, or to be a recipient of a social security payment, merely because the person receives an essential medical equipment payment.


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