NORFOLK  ISLAND

 

SOCIAL SERVICES REGULATIONS

 

[Consolidated as at 31 January 2013

on the authority of the Administrator

and in accordance with

the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980]

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 1. Citation

 2. Commencement

 3. Interpretation

 4. Variation of rates of benefit in the Schedule to the Act

 

NORFOLK  ISLAND

 

 

Social Services Regulations

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 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Services Regulations.

 2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1982.

 3. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Social Services Act 1980.

 4. (1) The rates of benefit specified in items 1, 5, 6, and 7 of the Schedule to the Act are varied as follows:—

(a) Item 1(a) — omit “$139.40” and substitute “$372.00”

(b) Item 1(b) — omit “$116.30” and substitute “$310.50”

(c) Item 5 — omit “$25.70” and substitute “$68.50”

(d) Item 6 — omit “$33.90” and substitute “$89.50”

(e) Item 7 — omit “$20.10” and substitute “$53.00”

and such rates shall apply to the fortnightly pension payment period ending the  twentieth day of July 2000 and thereafter subject to section 29 of the Act or subsection 3(5) of the Retail Price Index Act 1983.

  (2) The rates specified in item 2 of the Schedule to the Act shall be such as are determined by the Minister from time to time and published in the Gazette[+].

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The Social Services Regulations as shown in this consolidation comprises Regulations No. 3 of 1983 and amendments as indicated in the Tables below.

Enactment

Number

and year

Date of

commencement

Application saving or transitional provision

 

 

 

 

Social Services Regulations

3, 1983

4.8.83

 

 

 

 

 

Social Services Amendment Regulations 2000

6, 2000

29.6.00

 

[Previously consolidated as at 12 June 2004]

 

 

 

 

Interpretation (Amendment) Act 2012

[to substitute throughout —Commonwealth Minister for Minister; and to substitute Minister for executive member]

14, 2012

28.12.12

 

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ad = added or inserted

am = amended

rep = repealed

rs =  repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

 

 

 

 

 

4

rs

6, 2000

 

 

 

 

 

© Norfolk Island Government 2013

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[+] NB  The rates of benefits payable under the Social Services Act 1980 are adjusted each six months in accordance with movements measured by a price survey and published by the Minister as required under section 2 of the Retail Price Index Act 1983.  (For any record of an adjustment since the publication of this Consolidation see Norfolk Island Government Gazette.)