Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 62

62. Section 163 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection
(3) the following subsections:

"(3A) If:

   (a)  an amount of pharmaceutical allowance is added to a woman's maximum
        basic rate in working out the amount of an instalment of wife pension;
        and

   (b)  apart from this subsection, the amount of the instalment would be less
        than the woman's fortnightly PA rate; the amount of the instalment is
        to be increased to the woman's fortnightly PA rate.

"(3B) For the purposes of subsection (3A), the woman's fortnightly PA rate is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate
26 where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the yearly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance added to the woman's maximum basic rate in working out the amount of
the instalment.".