Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 128, 1978 - SECT 20

20. (1) Section 83CA of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (4) the following sub-section:

''(4A) For the purposes of sub-sections (3) and (4), a child referred to in
paragraph (b) of the definition of 'child' in sub-section (6) in relation to a
person shall be deemed to be a child of whom the person has the custody, care
and control.''; and

   (b)  by adding at the end of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of the
definition of ''child'' in sub-section (6) ''but is under the age of 25
years''.

(2) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, a child of a
person was a child who had attained the age of 25 years, the appropriate rate
in respect of that child shall be taken into account at any time after the
commencement of this section in the calculation of the prescribed rate of
income applicable to that person for the purposes of section 83CA of the
Social Services Act 1947 notwithstanding the amendment made by sub-section
(1).