Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (3), if:
(a) a section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or a listed automatic issue health care card has been granted to a person; and
(b) in order to be qualified for the card, the person must be receiving, or be qualified for, a particular social security pension or benefit; and
(c) the pension or benefit is cancelled;
the section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or listed automatic issue health care card, as the case may be, is, by force of this section, cancelled.
(2) If:
(a) a health care card has been granted to a person; and
(b) the person was qualified for the card under subsection 1061ZK(4) of the 1991 Act; and
(c) the person ceases to be qualified under that subsection;
the health care card is, by force of this section, cancelled.
(3) Subsection (1) does not have effect in a case in which the Secretary determines in writing that he or she is satisfied that the person concerned is likely to be granted a social security pension or benefit before it is reasonably practicable to take steps to give effect to the cancellation of the card.
(4) In this section:
"listed automatic issue health care card" means an automatic issue health care card that is granted:
(a) to a person who receives one of the following social security payments:
(ii) jobseeker payment;
(iv) special benefit;
(vi) benefit PP (partnered); or
(b) to a person who is receiving a youth allowance and who, at the time when a determination was made to grant the person the youth allowance:
(i) was not undertaking full - time study; and
(ii) was not a new apprentice.
"section 1061ZA pensioner concession card" means a pensioner concession card granted to a person who is qualified for the card under section 1061ZA of the 1991 Act (except under subsection (1B) of that section).