Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 128, 1978 - SECT 9

9. Section 46 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (2) ''person to whom sub-section (2AA) of
section 28 applies'' and substituting ''permanently blind person''; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

''(3) Where the maximum rate of pension applicable to a pensioner is a rate in
the calculation of which there has been taken into account a rate (in this
sub-section referred to as 'the supplementary rate') in respect of a
particular child who is a person to whom paragraph (c) of section 18B applies
and-

   (a)  the child has not been brought to live in Australia within a period of
        four years commencing on the first day in respect of which the
        supplementary rate was so taken into account; or

   (b)  at any time within that period of four years, the Director-General is
        satisfied that the pensioner does not intend to bring the child to
        live in Australia as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so,

the maximum rate of pension applicable to the pensioner shall be a rate
calculated without regard to that child.''.