Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 130, 1980 - SECT 20

20. (1) Section 133 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted: Benefit not payable during period of imprisonment

"133. Benefit is not payable to a person in respect of any period during which
the person is imprisoned following upon his conviction for an offence.".

(2) Where a person who was a mental hospital patient immediately before the
commencement of this section ceases to be a mental hospital patient (otherwise
than by reason of death) after the commencement of this section, sub- sections
133 (2) and (4) of the Principal Act apply in relation to that person
notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1) as if he had lodged a
claim for sickness benefit on so ceasing to be a mental hospital patient.

(3) For the purposes of sub-section (2), where a mental hospital patient has
been absent from the mental hospital for a continuous period of 4 weeks or
more, he shall be deemed to cease to be a mental hospital patient at the
expiration of the period of 4 weeks commencing on the commencement of that
absence.