Social Security (Qualifying Agricultural Work) Determination 2020

I, Kathryn Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following Determination under subsection 1067A(16) of the Social Security Act 1991.

Dated 26 November 2020  

Kathryn Campbell AO CSC

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Kinds of work that are qualifying agricultural work

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Qualifying Agricultural Work) Determination 2020.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 1067A(16) of the 

  Social Security Act 1991.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

5  Kinds of work that are qualifying agricultural work

For the definition of qualifying agricultural work in subsection 1067A(15) of the Act, each of the following kinds of work are determined:

(a)                     harvesting fruit or vegetable crops;

(b)                     packing fruit or vegetable crops;

 (c) pruning or trimming vines and trees directly associated with the cultivation and commercial sale of plant produce;

 (d) general maintenance crop work;

 (e) cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts;

 (f) immediate processing of plant products;

 (g) maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase;

 (h) immediate processing of animal products, including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning, but not including secondary processing; and

 (i) manufacturing dairy produce from raw material.