Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 81, 1992 - SECT 79

79. Schedule 1A of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after clause 25
the following clause: Compensation payments (changes introduced on 15 June
1988) "25A. For the purposes of Part 3.14 of this Act, if:

   (a)  a person received a compensation payment before 1 May 1987; and

   (b)  apart from its date of receipt, the payment would be a payment by way
        of compensation within the meaning of Part XVII of the 1947 Act, as in
        force immediately before 1 July 1991; and

   (c)  the payment was received by a person who was, immediately before 1 May
        1987, qualified to receive a sickness benefit; and

   (d)  Division 3A of Part VII of the 1947 Act, as in force at any time
        before 1 May 1987 (including that Division in its application by
        virtue of subsection  42(2) of the
        Social Security and Veterans' Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments)  Act
        1986 ), does not apply in relation to the sickness benefit; the
        compensation payment is taken to have been received on or after 1 May
        1987.".