Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 72

72. Division 3 of Part 2.23 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following
Division is substituted:

"Division 3-Amount of advance pharmaceutical allowance Amount of advance
pharmaceutical allowance

"1061JC. Subject to section 1061JD, the amount of a person's advance
pharmaceutical allowance is:
pharmaceutical allowance rate X 7
26 where:
'pharmaceutical allowance rate' is the yearly amount of pharmaceutical
allowance that would be added to the person's maximum basic rate if a
pharmaceutical allowance advance were not being paid to the person. Note:
pharmaceutical allowance rates are to be found at:
. point 1064-C8 of Pension Rate Calculator A
. point 1065-CS of Pension Rate Calculator B
. point 1066-C7 of Pension Rate Calculator C
. point 1066A-D8 of Pension Rate Calculator D
. point 1066B-DB of Pension Rate Calculator E. Annual limit

"1061JD.(1) The amount paid to a person in a calendar year by way of:

   (a)  pharmaceutical allowance; and

   (b)  advance pharmaceutical allowance; is not to exceed the total amount of
        pharmaceutical allowance that would have been paid to the person
        during that year if the person had not received any advance
        pharmaceutical allowance. Note: for the amount 'paid' to a person by
        way of pharmaceutical allowance see subsections 19A(2) to (6).

"(2) In this section:
'advance pharmaceutical allowance' includes advance pharmaceutical allowance
under the Veterans' Entitlements Act;
'pharmaceutical allowance' includes pharmaceutical allowance under the
Veterans' Entitlements Act.".