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SOCIAL SERVICES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (2014 BUDGET MEASURES NO. 6) ACT 2014 - SCHEDULE 8

Relocation scholarships

 

Social Security Act 1991

1   At the end of section   592K

Add:

Person's place of study is in a major city location

  (6)   Despite section   592J, a person is not qualified for a relocation scholarship payment if:

  (a)   at the person's qualification time, the person is not independent (see section   1067A); and

  (b)   at the person's qualification time, the person is required to live away from home (see section   1067D); and

  (c)   on the day the person started to undertake the course referred to in paragraph   592J(d), the home of each parent of the person was in a major city location; and

  (d)   at the person's qualification time, the person's place of study, worked out in accordance with an instrument in force under subsection   ( 8), is in a major city location.

Note:   For parent see subsection   5(1) and for major city location see subsection   ( 9).

  (7)   Despite section   592J, a person is not qualified for a relocation scholarship payment if:

  (a)   at the person's qualification time, the person is independent because of subsection   1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); and

  (b)   on the day 6 months before the person started to undertake the course referred to in paragraph   592J(d), the person's usual place of residence was in a major city location; and

  (c)   at the person's qualification time, the person's place of study, worked out in accordance with an instrument in force under subsection   ( 8), is in a major city location.

Note:   For major city location see subsection   ( 9).

  (8)   The Secretary may, by legislative instrument, make principles that must be complied with when working out a person's place of study at a particular time.

  (9)   In this section:

"major city location" means a location categorised as one of the Major Cities of Australia, under the Remoteness Structure as defined in subsection   1067A(10F).

2   Application provision

The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to working out whether a person is qualified for a relocation scholarship payment at a time on or after the commencement of this Schedule (regardless of whether the person qualified for a relocation scholarship payment at a time before that commencement).



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