Social Services Legislation Amendment (14-month Regional Independence Criteria) Act 2018

No. 22, 2018

An Act to amend the law relating to social security, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Act 2017 3

Social Services Legislation Amendment (14-month Regional Independence Criteria) Act 2018

No. 22, 2018

An Act to amend the law relating to social security, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 March 2018]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Social Services Legislation Amendment (14-month Regional Independence Criteria) Act 2018.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 28 March 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Act 2017

 1 Item 7 of Schedule 4

Repeal the item, substitute:

 7 Application provisions 1

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to:

 a

subject to subitem (2), working out qualification for, or the rate of, youth allowance in relation to days occurring on or after 1 January 2018; and

 b

working out whether a person is qualified for a relocation scholarship payment at a time on or after 1 January 2018.

 2

(2) The amendments made by this Schedule, so far as they relate to youth allowance, do not apply in relation to a person who, in respect of a day before the day the Social Services Legislation Amendment (14-month Regional Independence Criteria) Act 2018 receives the Royal Assent:

 a

receives youth allowance because of a claim made before 1 January 2018; and

 b

receives the youth allowance at a rate worked out on the basis that the person is independent; and

 c

(c) is independent because of paragraph 1067A(10)(c) of the Social Security Act 1991 as in force immediately before 1 January 2018.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 15 February 2018

Senate on 19 March 2018]

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