Social Security Amendment (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for Special Benefit) Determination 2018

I, Paul Fletcher, Minister for Families and Social Services, make the following Determination.

Dated 13 December 2018

Paul Fletcher

Minister for Families and Social Services

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Social Security (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for Special Benefit) Determination 2015 (No. 2)

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security Amendment (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for Special Benefit) Determination 2018.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 for the purposes of paragraphs 739A(1)(e) and 739A(4)(b) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Social Security (Class of Visas – Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for Special Benefit) Determination 2015 (No. 2)

1  After section 4

Insert:

 4A   Classes of visas for the purposes of paragraph 739A(1)(e) of the Act

For the purposes of paragraph 739A(1)(e) of the Act, classes of visas are:

(a)    Subclass 309 (Partner (Provisional)); and

(b)    Subclass 820 (Partner).

2  After section 5

Insert:

 5A   Classes of visas for the purposes of paragraph 739A(4)(b) of the Act

For the purposes of paragraph 739A(4)(b) of the Act, classes of visas are:

(a)    Subclass 309 (Partner (Provisional)); and

(b)    Subclass 820 (Partner).