Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 58, 1988 - SECT 21

21. Section 180 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsection:

"(3) Where:

   (a)  immediately before 1 January 1988, a person:

        (i)    was receiving a prescribed pension (other than a benefit under
               Part XIII or a pension under the
               Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986);

        (ii)   was eligible to receive payments under the Aboriginal Study
               Assistance Scheme; and

        (iii)  was a person to whom or in respect of whom payments were being
               made under the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme; and

   (b)  the person continues to be eligible to receive payments under the
        Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme on or after 1 January 1988; the
        rate of that pension, while the person continues to be eligible to
        receive payments under the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme, shall
        not exceed the rate at which it was payable immediately before the
        commencement of section 1 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1988.".