Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 78, 1984 - SECT 6

6. Section 6C of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following sub-sections:

''(2) A reference in-

   (a)  Division 2 (other than section 21A) or Division 3 of Part III;

   (b)  Division 2 of Part IV; or

   (c)  Part IVAAA, to a period of residence in Australia shall be read as
        including a reference to a period of residence in an area that was, at
        the time of residence, an external Territory, other than Norfolk
        Island.

''(3) In paragraph 25 (1) (b), a reference to Australia shall be read as
including a reference to an area that was, at the time a claimant became
permanently incapacitated for work or permanently blind, an external
Territory, other than Norfolk Island.

''(4) For the purposes of Part III and sub-section 60 (1), continuity of
residence of a claimant in Australia shall be deemed not to have been
interrupted by absence of the claimant in an external Territory.

''(5) In paragraph 60 (1) (d), a reference to Australia shall be read as
including a reference to an area that was, at the time of the occurrence of
the event by reason of which the claimant became a widow, an external
Territory, other than Norfolk Island.

''(6) A reference in any of the paragraphs of sub-section 83AAC (1) to
residence in Australia shall be read as including a reference to residence in
an area that was, at the time of the residence, an external Territory, other
than Norfolk Island.

''(7) In paragraph 83AD (1) (a), a reference to a person who formerly resided
in Australia and who has returned to Australia shall be read as including a
reference to a person who-

   (a)  formerly resided in an area that was, at the time of the residence, an
        external Territory;

   (b)  has never resided in Australia; and

   (c)  has arrived in Australia.''.