Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1993 No. 121, 1993 - SECT 43

43. After section 295A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Cancellation or suspension for failure to take action to obtain a comparable
foreign payment

"295AA.(1) If:

   (a)  a sole parent pension recipient has been given a notice under
        subsection 285A(1); and

   (b)  the Secretary is satisfied that the recipient has not taken reasonable
        action to obtain the comparable foreign payment within the period
        specified in the notice; the Secretary may determine that the pension
        is to be cancelled or suspended.

"(2) If:

   (a)  a sole parent pension recipient has been given a notice under
        subsection 285A(2); and

   (b)  the Secretary is satisfied that the recipient's partner has not taken
        reasonable action to obtain the comparable foreign payment within the
        period specified in the notice; the Secretary may determine that the
        pension is to be cancelled or suspended.

"(3) For the purposes of this section, a person takes reasonable action to
obtain a comparable foreign payment only if the person takes reasonable action
to obtain that payment at the highest rate applicable to the person.".