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SOCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SIMPLIFYING STUDENT PAYMENTS) ACT 2017 (NO. 24, 2017) - SCHEDULE 3

Remoteness Structure

   

Social Security Act 1991

Subsections 1067A(10F) to (10H)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

         (10F)  For the purposes of paragraph (10E)(a), Remoteness Structure means the Remoteness Structure described in:

                     (a)  the document titled "Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 - Remoteness Structure, July 2011", published by the Australian Statistician and as amended from time to time; or

                     (b)  any replacement document that is published by the Australian Statistician and that is in effect in accordance with subsection (10G); or

                     (c)  any document that is determined by the Secretary in an instrument under subsection (10H) and that is in effect in accordance with subsection (10J).

        (10G)  If a replacement document mentioned in paragraph (10F)(b) is published by the Australian Statistician:

                     (a)  the replacement document takes effect on the first 1 January or 1 July to occur after the day of that publication and then has effect as amended from time to time; and

                     (b)  the document in effect immediately before that publication is taken to continue to have effect until the end of the day before that 1 January or 1 July.

        (10H)  The Secretary may, by notifiable instrument, determine a document for the purposes of paragraph (10F)(c). The Secretary may do so only if the Australian Statistician has notified the Secretary that the Australian Statistician will no longer be publishing replacement documents mentioned in paragraph (10F)(b).

         (10J)  A document determined in an instrument under subsection (10H) takes effect on the day specified in the determination and then has effect as amended from time to time.

2  Application provision

The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to:

                     (a)  working out a person's qualification for, or the rate of, youth allowance for a day that is on or after the commencement of this item; and

                     (b)  working out a person's qualification for a relocation scholarship payment at a time that is on or after the commencement of this item and, if the person is so qualified, the amount of the relocation scholarship payment.


 



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