Social Security (Exemptions from Non-payment and Waiting Periods – Activities) Specification 2017

 

I, FINN PRATT, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following Specification.

Dated      20 June 2017 

 

 

FINN PRATT

Secretary of Department of Social Services

 


 

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1 Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Exemptions from Non-payment and Waiting Periods - Activities) Specification 2017.

2 Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

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Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 July 2017.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

  This instrument is made under subsections 500WA(3), 549A(6), 549CA(4), 553B(2A), 553C(5), 598(8A), 620(3), 633(5) and 634(2A) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4 Revocation

  The Social Security (Exemptions from Non-payment and Waiting Periods – Activities) Specification 2015 is revoked.

5 Definitions

  In this Specification:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

Rehabilitation program means rehabilitation program within the meaning of subsection 23 (1) of the Act.

Community Development Programme means the employment and participation programme serving identified remote areas starting on 1 July 2015.

Stream C employment services means those services specified as Stream C in the jobactive Deed 2015-2020.

 

6 Specification of activities

  For paragraphs 500WA(2)(a), 549A(5)(a), 549CA(3)(a), 553B(2)(a), 553C(4)(a), 598(8)(a), 620(2)(a), 633(4)(a),and 634(2)(a) of the Act, the following activities are specified:

(a)      an activity undertaken by a person as part of Stream C employment services provided to the person;

(b)      a rehabilitation program;

(c)      an activity undertaken by a person as part of the Community Development Programme where the person would otherwise have been referred to activities listed in paragraph (a) or (b) if not for the person being placed in the Community Development Programme.