Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 58, 1988 - SECT 17

17. Section 140 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsections:

"(2) Where, under subsection 10 (1) of the Disability Services Act 1986, the
Minister administering that Act has approved the making of a grant of
financial assistance to an approved organisation in relation to the provision
by the organisation of supported employment services within the meaning of
section 7 of that Act, the Secretary may decide that the paid employment to
which those supported employment services relates is, for the purposes of this
Part, sheltered employment.

"(3) A decision under subsection (2) may be expressed to relate to paid
employment provided at a time earlier than the date on which the decision was
made, not being a time earlier than 5 June 1987.".