Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 56

  (1)   This section applies to a person if:

  (a)   the person is under 18 years of age and is not independent; and

  (b)   youth allowance has become payable to the person; and

  (c)   the person has more than one living parent; and

  (d)   at the end of the period of 28 days starting on the day on which youth allowance became payable to the person:

  (i)   the person has not nominated a parent for the purposes of subsection   45(1); and

  (ii)   the Secretary has not given a direction under subsection   45(2) in relation to payment of instalments of the person's youth allowance.

  (2)   Youth allowance is not payable to a person while this section applies to the person.

  (3)   If a person to whom this section applies nominates a parent for the purposes of subsection   45(1), this section ceases to apply to the person.