SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 44 Payment of instalments to person or nominee

Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Payment of instalments to person or nominee

(1): Subject to subsection (4) and section 45, instalments of a person's social security periodic payment are to be paid to that person.
(2): Subject to subsection (4), if, by virtue of a determination under subsection 46(2), a person's special employment advance is to be paid by instalments, the instalments are to be paid to that person.
(3): The Secretary may, in writing, direct that the whole or a part of the instalments of a person's social security periodic payment or special employment advance are to be paid to someone else on behalf of the person.
(4): If the Secretary gives a direction under subsection (3), the instalments are to be paid in accordance with the direction.
(5): Subsections (3) and (4) do not apply in relation to instalments of youth allowance to which section 45 applies.

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