Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 70

70. Section 751 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection
(2) the following subsections:

"(2A) If:

   (a)  an amount of pharmaceutical allowance is taken into account in working
        out the amount of a person's instalment of special benefit; 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.

"(2B) For the purposes of subsection (2A), the person's fortnightly PA rate
is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate X N where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the fortnightly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance taken into account in working out the amount of the instalment;
'N' is:

   (a)  if the instalment is for a number of whole fortnights-the number of
        fortnights; or

   (b)  if the instalment is for a period of less than a fortnight-equal to:
week days in period; or
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   (c)  if the instalment is for a period that consists of a number of whole
        fortnights and a period of less than a fortnight-equal to:
number of whole fortnights + week days in short period".
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