Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 59

59. Section 19A of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting "Parts 2.22 and 2.23 of";

   (b)  by adding at the end the following subsections:

"(2) If:

   (a)  a person is paid an instalment of social security or service pension
        or social security benefit on a particular day; and

   (b)  an amount by way of pharmaceutical allowance is to be added to the
        person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount of the
        instalment; the amount of pharmaceutical allowance paid to the person
        on that day is worked out using subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6).

"(3) If the instalment is an instalment of social security or service pension,
the amount of allowance paid is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate
26 where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the yearly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount
of the instalment.

"(4) If:

   (a)  the instalment is an instalment of social security benefit; and

   (b)  the instalment is for a fortnight or a period of whole fortnights; the
        amount of allowance paid is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate X number of fortnights where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the fortnightly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount
of the instalment;
'number of fortnights' is the number of fortnights in the period for which the
instalment is paid.

"(5) If:

   (a)  the instalment is an instalment of social security benefit; and

   (b)  the instalment is for a period of less than a fortnight; the amount of
        the allowance paid is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate X week days in period
10 where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the fortnightly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount
of the instalment;
'week days in period' is the number of week days in the period for which the
instalment is paid.

"(6) If:

   (a)  the instalment is an instalment of social security benefit; and

   (b)  the instalment is for a period that consists of:

        (i)    a fortnight or a number of whole fortnights; and

        (ii)   a period of less than a fortnight; the amount of allowance paid
               is:
week days in
pharmaceutical X number of whole X short period
   allowance rate        fortnights            10
where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the fortnightly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount
of the instalment;
'number of whole fortnights' is the number of whole fortnights in the period
for which the instalment is paid;
'week days in short period' is the number of days in the period that is less
than a fortnight.".