Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1061PV

    If a person is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period, the period:

  (a)   starts on the day the person first became an Australian resident; and

  (b)   ends when the person has been an Australian resident in Australia for a period of, or periods totalling, 208 weeks after that day.

Note:   For Australian resident see subsection   7(2).