Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts
1 Paragraph 4(9A)(b)
Repeal the paragraph.
2 Subsection 8(1) (definition of ordinary income ) (note 2)
Omit "1171", substitute "1176".
3 Paragraph 8(8)(d)
Repeal the paragraph.
4 Paragraph 8(11)(a)
Omit "10(1A)", substitute "(11A)".
5 After subsection 8(11)
Insert:
(11A) An amount is a periodic amount if it is:
(a) the amount of one payment in a series of related payments, even if the payments are irregular in time and amount; or
(b) the amount of a payment making up for arrears in such a series.
6 Subsection 11(14)
Repeal the subsection.
7 Subsection 14(1) (at the end of the definition of remote area )
Add:
; and (d) Lord Howe Island.
8 Subsection 23(1) (definition of financial hardship farmer )
Repeal the definition.
9 Subsection 23(1) (definition of life insurance policy )
Repeal the definition.
10 Subsection 23(1) (definition of section 26 certificate date )
Repeal the definition.
11 Subsection 23(5)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(5) For the purposes of this Act, a person is in gaol if:
(a) the person is being lawfully detained (in prison or elsewhere) while under sentence for conviction of an offence and not on release on parole or licence; or
(b) the person is undergoing a period of custody pending trial or sentencing for an offence.
12 Subsection 82(2) (note)
Repeal the note.
13 Paragraph 83(1)(a)
After "pension", insert "or social security benefit".
Note: The heading to section 83 is altered by omitting " partner's pension or allowance " and substituting " deceased partner's previous entitlement ".
14 Subparagraph 92C(a)(ii)
Omit "(within the meaning of section 1208)", substitute "(see section 5 of the Social Security (International Agreements) Act 1999 )".
15 Paragraph 93H(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) if the person is not permanently blind--the rate that would be the person's provisional annual payment rate under the method statement in point 1064 - A1, ascertained as at the date of grant of the age pension, if it were assumed that steps 2 and 3 were omitted from that method statement; or
16 Paragraph 93J(3)(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) if the person is not permanently blind--the adjusted percentage of the sum of:
(i) the person's maximum basic rate under Table B in point 1064 - B1; and
(ii) the person's pension supplement worked out under point 1064 - BA2;
calculated in each case as at the date of grant of the age pension and assuming that the person was not a member of a couple at that date; or
17 Paragraph 93J(4)(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) if the person is not permanently blind--the adjusted percentage of the sum of:
(i) the person's maximum basic rate under Table B in point 1064 - B1; and
(ii) the person's pension supplement worked out under point 1064 - BA2;
calculated in each case as at the date of grant of the age pension and assuming that the person was a member of a couple at that date; or
18 Subsection 93J(5) (definition of maximum basic rate )
Repeal the definition, substitute:
"maximum basic rate" is the sum of the amounts worked out under steps 1 and 1A of the method statement in point 1064 - A1.
19 Paragraph 146G(1)(a)
After "pension", insert "or social security benefit".
Note 1: The heading to section 146G is altered by omitting " partner's pension or allowance " and substituting " deceased partner's previous entitlement ".
Note 2: The heading to section 238 is altered by omitting " partner's pension or allowance " and substituting " deceased partner's previous entitlement ".
20 Subparagraph 198C(6)(b)(i)
Omit "subsection 222(1A)", substitute "section 70 of the Administration Act".
21 Subsection 237(2) (note)
Repeal the note.
22 Subsection 246(2) (note 1)
Repeal the note.
23 Subsection 246(2) (note 2)
Omit "Note 2:", substitute "Note:".
24 Subsection 359(2) (note)
Repeal the note.
25 Subsection 547C(1)
Omit "(1)".
26 Subsection 573B(1)
Omit "(1)".
27 Subsection 593(2)
Repeal the subsection.
28 Section 665ZFC
Omit "section 665ZC", substitute "section 665ZFA".
29 Paragraphs 739(c), (d) and (e)
Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:
(c) the person meets the conditions in subsection 1067A(9) (which is about being independent).
30 Paragraph 823(1)(a)
After "pension", insert "or social security benefit".
Note: The heading to section 823 is altered by omitting " partner's pension or allowance " and substituting " deceased partner's previous entitlement ".
31 Paragraph 1037(aa)
Omit "provided; or", substitute "provided.".
32 Paragraph 1037(b)
Repeal the paragraph.
33 Paragraphs 1061EM(1)(b) and (2)(a)
Omit "application", substitute "claim".
34 Subsection 1061EM(3)
Omit "application", substitute "claim".
35 Section 1061JG
Before "A person", insert "(1)".
36 Paragraph 1061JG(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) the person spends at least 14 days in gaol, or in psychiatric confinement that starts because he or she has been charged with an offence, and is released so that he or she is neither in gaol nor in psychiatric confinement; and
37 At the end of section 1061JG
Add:
Note: A person does not cease to be in gaol merely because he or she is transferred between a prison and a psychiatric institution where he or she is lawfully detained while still under sentence. See subsection 23(5).
(2) Disregard subsection 23(9) in determining whether a person meets the condition in paragraph (1)(a) of this section.
Note: Subsection 23(9) provides that the confinement of a person in a psychiatric institution when the person is undertaking a course of rehabilitation is not to be taken to be psychiatric confinement.
38 Paragraph 1061ZK(5)(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) on that day the person is receiving a youth allowance (except because of section 540AA) and is not undertaking full - time study; or
39 Subsection 1061ZK(7)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(7) This section applies to a person on a day if, on that day, the person is receiving mobility allowance.
40 Point 1064 - A2
Omit ", 1064 - F2".
Note: The heading to section 1066 is altered by omitting " sole parent pension, ".
41 Paragraph (a) of point 1068 - D1
Repeal the paragraph.
42 Subsection 1070L(2) (cells at table items 3 and 4, column 4)
Repeal the cells, substitute:
Half the rate specified in column 4 of item 2 |
43 Subsection 1070N(2) (cells at table items 3 and 4, column 4)
Repeal the cells, substitute:
Half the rate specified in column 4 of item 2 |
44 Subsection 1070P(2) (cells at table items 3 and 4, column 4)
Repeal the cells, substitute:
Half the rate specified in column 4 of item 2 |
45 Subsection 1070Q(2) (cell at table item 3, column 4)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
Half the rate specified in column 4 of item 2 |
46 Subsection 1070R(2) (cell at table item 2, column 4)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
Half the rate specified in column 4 of item 1 |
47 Point 1071A - 4 (before paragraph (a) of the definition of income )
Insert:
(aa) payments of a social security pension or a social security benefit; and
48 Point 1071A - 4 (after paragraph (c) of the definition of income )
Insert:
(ca) payments of income support supplement; and
(cb) a payment under Part VIIAB (DFISA) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act (including a payment made under regulations made under that Part); and
49 Section 1072
Omit "2 or 3", substitute "1A".
50 Section 1073F (method statement, step 3)
Omit "participant's fortnightly", substitute "participant's".
52 Subsection 1100(2)
Omit "15th", substitute "fifth".
53 At the end of Division 2 of Part 3.10
Add:
(1) This section applies if, for the purposes of working out for a calculation day the rate of a payment to be made to a person under this Act, it is necessary to take account of a payment (the foreign payment ):
(a) that the person received from a source overseas; and
(b) that was originally denominated in a foreign currency but was received by the person in Australian currency.
(2) For those purposes, the value in Australian currency of the foreign payment is taken to be the value that would have been determined under section 1100 had the person received the foreign payment in the foreign currency.
(3) Subsection (2) has effect regardless of the amount of the foreign payment actually received by the person in Australian currency.
(4) In this section:
"calculation day" has the same meaning as in section 1100.
54 Subsection 1118(1)
Omit "198H, 198HA, 198HB, 198J, 198JA, 198JB, 198K and 198L, subparagraph 501E(1)(d)(iv), Division 1B of Part 3.10 and sections 1125, 1126,", substitute "198F to 198MA (inclusive), Division 1B of Part 3.10, Division 2 and sections".
55 Subsection 1124A(1)
Omit "Subject to subsection (2), if", substitute "If".
56 Subsection 1124A(2)
Repeal the subsection.
57 Subsection 1125(1)
Omit "Subject to subsection (2), if", substitute "If".
58 Subsection 1125(2)
Repeal the subsection.
59 Subsection 1125A(1)
Omit "(2),".
60 Subsection 1125A(2)
Repeal the subsection.
61 Subsection 1126(1)
Omit "(2),".
62 Subsection 1126(2)
Repeal the subsection.
63 Subsection 1130C(3)
After "The", insert "person's".
64 Subsection 1130C(3)
Omit "of a person who is not a financial hardship farmer".
65 Subsection 1130C(3) (note)
Repeal the note.
66 Subsection 1130C(4)
Repeal the subsection.
67 Subsection 1130C(5)
Omit "subsections (3) and (4)", substitute "paragraph (3)(b)".
68 Subsection 1132(3)
After "The", insert "person's".
69 Subsection 1132(3)
Omit "of a person who is not a financial hardship farmer".
70 Subsection 1132(3A)
Repeal the subsection.
71 Subsection 1132(4)
Omit "subsections (3) and (3A)", substitute "paragraph (3)(b)".
72 Section 1158
After "parenting payment,", insert "a carer allowance,".
73 At the end of Part 3.13
Add:
(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.
75 Section 1190 (cell at table item 17, column 4)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
[Part 3.7--section 1070L--Table--column 4--items 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10] [Part 3.7--section 1070M--Table--column 3--amount] [Part 3.7--sections 1070N and 1070P--Table--column 4--items 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10] [Part 3.7--section 1070Q--Table--column 4--items 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7] [Part 3.7--section 1070R--Table--column 4--items 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6] |
76 Subsection 1206GC(5) (table item 6, column 2)
Omit "547C(1)(a)", substitute "547C(a)".
77 Subsection 1206GC(5) (table item 7, column 2)
Omit "573B(1)(a)", substitute "573B(a)".
80 Section 1216
Omit "remote area allowance,".
81 Subparagraph 1223(1B)(b)(iii)
Omit "subsection 222(1A)", substitute "section 70 of the Administration Act".
82 Paragraphs 1223AA(1)(a), (1B)(a) and (b) and (1BA)(a) and (d)
Omit "benefit", substitute "payment".
83 Paragraph 1231(1)(b)
Omit "or" (last occurring).
84 After paragraph 1231(1)(ba)
Insert:
(bb) a debt described in subsection 1228(2A) or (2B);