Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1976 No. 62, 1976 - SECT 3

3. Section 94 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of the definition
of ''child'' in sub-section (1) the words ''twenty-one years'' and
substituting the words ''twenty-five years''; and

   (b)  by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:-
*     ''(2A) Where a person who is wholly or substantially dependent on
another person-

   (a)  has attained the age of eighteen years but has not attained the age of
        twenty-five years;

   (b)  is receiving full-time education at a school, college or university;
        and

   (c)  is not in employment or engaged in work on his own account,

the provisions of this Part, including the provisions of sub- section (2),
apply in relation to that person as if that person were a child in the
custody, care and control of that other person.''.