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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1159A

Person not qualified for some concession cards when in gaol or in psychiatric confinement following criminal charge

  (1)   A person is not qualified under section   1061ZG or 1061ZO for a seniors health card or health care card on a day on which the person is:

  (a)   in gaol; or

  (b)   undergoing psychiatric confinement because the person has been charged with an offence.

Note 1:   For in gaol see subsection   23(5).

Note 2:   For psychiatric confinement see subsections   23(8) and (9).

  (2)   This section has effect despite sections   1061ZG and 1061ZO.


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