Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 5

5.(1) Section 513 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsection:

"(4) If:

   (a)  a person was receiving a social security pension or a service pension;
        and

   (b)  the person claims a job search allowance within 14 days of the day on
        which the last instalment of the person's pension was paid; and

   (c)  the person becomes qualified for a job search allowance at some time
        during the 14 day period but after the first day of that period; the
        person is taken to be qualified for a job search allowance for the
        whole of the 14 day period. Note: subsection (4) operates when a
        person transfers from a pension to a job search allowance and the
        person is not qualified for a job search allowance immediately after
        the day on which the person's last instalment of pension is paid. The
        subsection deems the person to be so qualified. As a result, the
        person may be paid a job search allowance for the period beginning on
        the day after the day on which the person's last instalment of pension
        was paid. The subsection aims to ensure that there is minimal
        disruption to a person's payments when a person transfers from a
        pension to a job search allowance.".

(2) Subsection 513(4) of the Principal Act inserted by subsection (1) comes
after subsection 513(3) of that Act inserted by paragraph 133(1)(c) of this
Act.