Social Security (Administration) (Deductible portion — section 123XI) Specification 2019

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

Dated 19 January 2019

Paul Fletcher

Minister for Families and Social Services

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Schedules

6 Deductible portion

Schedule 1—Repeals

Social Security (Administration) (Deductible portion – section 123XI) Specification 2009

1 Name

This instrument is the Social Security (Administration) (Deductible portion — section 123XI) Specification 2019.

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
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 paragraph 123XI(3)(b) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

Note Category I welfare payment is defined in section 123TC of the Act and has the same meaning in this Specification as in the Act.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6 Deductible portion

For paragraph 123XI(3)(b) of the Act, the lower percentage of 70% is specified as the deductible portion of an instalment of a category I welfare payment, other than the following category I welfare payments:

(a) a payment under the scheme known as the ABSTUDY scheme that includes an amount identified as living allowance;

(b) a payment under the scheme known as the ABSTUDY scheme that includes an amount identified as pensioner education supplement.