Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1993 No. 36, 1993 - SECT 58

58. Section 887 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection
(8) the following subsections:

"(8A) If:

   (a)  a person (the 'PES recipient') is granted payments under a prescribed
        educational scheme; and

   (b)  because of the grant, family payment is payable to the PES recipient
        or the recipient's partner at a higher rate; and

   (c)  before the PES recipient was advised of the grant, the recipient or
        the recipient's partner was receiving family payment; and

   (d)  within 28 days after the PES recipient was advised of the grant, the
        person who is receiving family payment gives the Secretary notice of
        the grant; the determination to increase the family payment rate takes
        effect on the day specified in the determination. Note: For
        'prescribed educational scheme' see subsection 5(1).

"(8B) The day specified under subsection (8A) is not to be earlier than the
day as of which the grant of payments under the prescribed educational scheme
takes effect.".