Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 58, 1988 - SECT 10

10. Section 117 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

"(1A) A person who is temporarily absent from Australia shall be treated, for
the purposes of subsection (1), as if the person were in Australia:

   (a)  if the period of temporary absence is not longer than 3
        months-throughout that period; or

   (b)  in any other case-throughout the first 3 months of that period.";

   (b)  by omitting from subsection (2) "paragraph 121 (a)" and substituting
        "paragraph 121 (1) (a)".