Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 64

64. Section 273 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 person's maximum
        basic rate in working out the amount of an instalment of sole parent
        pension; and

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

"(3B) For the purposes of subsection (3A), the person's fortnightly PA rate
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.".