Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 4) 1989 No. 164, 1989 - SECT 7

7. After section 4C of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Disadvantaged persons, being certain former recipients of sole parent's
pension, unemployment benefit or job search allowance

"4D. (1) This section applies to a person who is in receipt of:

   (a)  sole parent's pension; or

   (b)  unemployment benefit; or

   (c)  job search allowance; under the Social Security Act 1947.

"(2) Where the person:

   (a)  commences full-time employment; and

   (b)  has been:

        (i)    where the person is in receipt of sole parent's pension-a
               qualified recipient; or

        (ii)   where the person is in receipt of unemployment benefit or job
               search allowance-an unemployment beneficiary; for a continuous
               period of 12 months immediately before becoming so employed;
               and

   (c)  because of becoming so employed, or because of the resulting increase
        in the person's income, the person stops being a person to whom this
        section applies; the person is a disadvantaged person in respect of
        the period of 6 months after the person stops being a person to whom
        this section applies.

"(3) In this section:
'qualified recipient' means a person who is in receipt of:

   (a)  invalid pension; or

   (b)  wife's pension; or

   (c)  carer's pension; or

   (d)  rehabilitation allowance; or

   (e)  sheltered employment allowance; under the Social Security Act 1947;
'unemployment beneficiary' means a person who is in receipt of:

   (a)  unemployment benefit; or

   (b)  job search allowance; under the Social Security Act 1947.".
        Commencement: 1 June 1990