Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 1) 1995 No. 104, 1995 - SCHEDULE 18

                          SCHEDULE 18                   Section 4

AMENDMENTS OF THE DATA-MATCHING PROGRAM (ASSISTANCE 
AND TAX) ACT 1990  1. Section 3: Insert: "'identification number for the
purpose of personal assistance' has the meaning given by subsection (2);". 2.
Section 3 (definition of "spouse"): Omit the definition, substitute:
"'spouse', in relation to a person, includes anyone who is: (a) a spouse or a
partner of the person for the purposes of any personal assistance; or (b) a
spouse of the person for the purposes of any tax law; and marital status has a
corresponding meaning;". 3. Section 3: Add at the end: "(2) In this Act,
'identification number for the purpose of personal assistance' means: (a) for
the purposes of the definition of 'family identity data' in subsection (1) and
any references to family identity data-a number allocated to a person by an
assistance agency for the purpose of assistance provided to the person; and
(b) for any other purpose-a number referred to in paragraph (a) as modified by
the matching agency. "(3) The reference in paragraph 5 in Step 2 of the
data-matching cycle in section 7 to the matching agency extracting numbers
from data includes a reference to the matching agency extracting numbers and
modifying them as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b), and numbers so modified are
taken to have been extracted from that data.".