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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42AM

Reconnection requirements for mutual obligation failures and work refusal failures

  (1)   The Secretary must impose a requirement (the reconnection requirement ) on a person if the Secretary determines under section   42AF or 42AG that a participation payment is not payable to the person for a period.

  (2)   The Secretary must notify the person, in any way the Secretary considers appropriate, of:

  (a)   the reconnection requirement; and

  (b)   the effect of not complying with the reconnection requirement.

  (3)   The Secretary must determine that the person's participation payment is cancelled if:

  (a)   the Secretary does not determine an earlier day for the purposes of ending the person's payment suspension period under paragraph   42AL(3)(b); and

  (b)   the person fails to comply with the reconnection requirement within 4 weeks after it is notified under subsection   (2) of this section.

  (4)   If the Secretary makes a determination under subsection   (3), the participation payment is cancelled at the end of the 4 weeks mentioned in paragraph   (3)(b).



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