Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1977 No. 159, 1977 - SECT 14

14. After section 120 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Non-payment for 6 weeks of unemployment benefit in case of persons ceasing
education
''120A. (1) Subject to this section, where-

   (a)  a person who has ceased to be a full-time secondary school student
        makes a claim for unemployment benefit; or

   (b)  a person who has ceased to undertake a full-time course of study at an
        institution of tertiary education (not being a course of study that,
        in the opinion of the Director-General, was being undertaken for a
        post-graduate or higher degree or similar qualification) without
        having completed that course of study makes a claim for unemployment
        benefit and the person so ceased to undertake that course voluntarily
        without having a reason that, in the opinion of the Director-General,
        was good and sufficient, unemployment benefit is not payable to the
        person in respect of any period of unemployment during the period of 6
        weeks after the day on which the person so ceased to be a full-time
        secondary school student or to undertake that course, as the case may
        be.

''(2) A reference in this section to a full-time secondary school student
shall be read as including a reference to a student undertaking a full-time
course of secondary education provided by a correspondence school.

''(3) Where-

   (a)  a person is a full-time secondary school student undertaking a course
        of education at the end of which an examination or examinations is or
        are to be held, whether by the school at which the person is such a
        student or by another examining authority;

   (b)  the person has informed the school or authority that he proposes to be
        a candidate, or has not informed the school or authority in writing
        that he does not propose to be a candidate, at that examination or
        those examinations; and

   (c)  the person has completed, or substantially completed, that course of
        education apart from sitting for that examination or those
        examinations, the person shall not be taken for the purposes of this
        section to cease to be a full-time secondary school student until that
        examination or the last of those examinations has been held.

''(4) In this section, 'institution of tertiary education' includes any
institution that is a tertiary institution for the purposes of the Tertiary 
Education Commission Act 1977 .''.