Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 78, 1984 - SECT 36

36. (1) Section 112 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from
sub-paragraph (6) (b) (i) ''an age or invalid pension'' and substituting ''a
pension''.

(2) Section 112 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) ''a person'' and substituting ''an
unmarried person'';

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(2) Subject to sections 113 and 114, where a married person who is qualified
to receive an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit has a spouse who is
resident in Australia and is, in the opinion of the Director-General,
dependent (whether substantially or less than substantially) on the
married person, not being a spouse who is in receipt of a prescribed pension,
the rate of the benefit applicable to the married person under sub-section (1)
shall, by virtue of this sub-section, be increased by an amount per week equal
to the amount per week specified in paragraph (1) (d) or, if the spouse is, in
the opinion of the Director-General, less than substantially dependent on the
married person, such amount (if any) per week as the Director-General
considers reasonable in the circumstances but not exceeding the amount per
week so specified.'';

   (c)  by omitting sub-section (4A); and

   (d)  by omitting sub-section (7) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(7) For the purposes of this section and section 114, 'prescribed pension'
means-

   (a)  a benefit under Part IVAAA or this Part;

   (b)  a pension under Part III or IV;

   (c)  an allowance under Part VIIA;

   (d)  a rehabilitation allowance under Part VIII;

   (e)  a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920; or

   (f)  an allowance under section 9 of the Tuberculosis Act 1948.''.