Social Security (Exempt Lump Sums - Payments to Former British Child Migrants) Determination 2019

I, MARY MCLARTY, Delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following Determination.

Dated 27 March 2019

Mary McLarty

Delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Exempt Lump Sums – Payments to Former British Child Migrants) Determination 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

Former British Child Migrant Payment means any payment of no more than £20,000GBP (or equivalent amount in Australian currency as calculated in accordance with the Social Security (Foreign Currency Exchange Rate) Determination 2017) made on or after 1 March 2019 by The Government of the United Kingdom under the Ex-Gratia Payment Scheme for Former British Child Migrants to, a person who was alive on 1 March 2018, and was determined under that scheme to be an entitled former child migrant, or that person’s beneficiary.

5  Exempt Lump Sum

For the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Act, the amount of a Former British Child Migrant Payment is an exempt lump sum.