Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1986 No. 130 of 1986 - SECT 21

21. Section 135B of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Persons eligible to be paid rehabilitation allowance, &c.

"135B. (1) A person (other than an unmarried person who has not attained 16
years of age or a person who has attained 65 years of age) who-

   (a)  is-

        (i)    undertaking a rehabilitation program under Part III of the
               Disability Services Act 1986; or

        (ii)   undertaking a follow-up program under that Part, being a
               follow-up program, or a follow-up program included in a class
               of such programs, in relation to which the Secretary has
               directed, in writing, that this paragraph apply; and

   (b)  is qualified or eligible to receive a pension, benefit or allowance,
        is eligible to receive a rehabilitation allowance.

"(2) A person receiving a rehabilitation allowance is not entitled to receive
a pension, benefit or allowance.".