Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (NO. 2) 1982 NO. 112 OF 1982 - SECT 5

5. (1) After section 4B of the Principal Act the following section is
inserted: Disadvantaged persons, being certain former recipients of invalid
pension and sheltered employment allowance

''4C. (1) This section applies to a person to whom or in respect of whom-

   (a)  there is being paid an invalid pension or sheltered employment
        allowance under the Social Security Act 1947; or

   (b)  such a pension or allowance would be payable if the person were not a
        person in receipt of a training allowance under section 135D of the
        Social Security Act 1947.

''(2) Where a person to whom this section applies-

   (a)  undertakes paid employment (other than sheltered employment within the
        meaning of Part VIIA of the Social Security Act 1947); and

   (b)  by reason only of an increase in the income (if any) of the person,
        being an increase attributable to his undertaking that employment-

        (i)    in the case of a person to whom paragraph (1) (a)
               applies-ceases to be a person to whom that paragraph applies;
               or

        (ii)   in the case of a person to whom paragraph (1) (b)
               applies-would, if he had been a person to whom paragraph (1)
               (a) had applied, have ceased to be a person to whom paragraph
               (1) (a) applied, the person shall be a disadvantaged person in
               respect of the period of 12 months commencing on the day on
               which he ceases to be a person to whom paragraph (1) (a)
               applies or the day on which he would have ceased to be a person
               to whom paragraph (1) (a) applied, as the case requires.''.

(2) Section 4C of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph
(1) (b) ''training allowance under section 135D of'' and substituting
''rehabilitation allowance under''.