Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 77, 1987 - SECT 23

23. Section 112 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting in subsection (2) "or who, but for section 135SC, would
        be
eligible to receive a prescribed pension" after "prescribed pension"; and

   (b)  by omitting subsection (4G) and substituting the following subsection:

"(4G) For the purpose of paragraph (4F) (b), 'maximum student assistance
amount' means an amount equal to 7 times the maximum amount that a person
could receive, in respect of a period of one day, under the
Student Assistance  Act 1973 as a living allowance within the meaning of that
Act if that person:

   (a)  undertook at an education institution an approved course within the
        meaning of the regulations made under that Act;

   (b)  were deemed to be of independent status for the purposes of the
        regulations made under that Act; and

   (c)  were under 18 years of age.".