This instrument is the Social Security (Administration) (Ending Unemployment Non-payment Periods — Classes of Persons) Specification 2021.

(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 the 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 42S(5) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

dependent child has the meaning given by section 5 of the Social Security Act 1991.

5 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in the Schedule to this instrument is repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule.

6 Specification of classes of persons

(1) For paragraph 42S (4) (b) of the Act, the following classes of persons are specified:

(a) persons with a dependent child;

(b) persons who have significant family or caring responsibilities;

(c) persons who have an illness, impairment or condition that requires treatment, and who cannot afford the treatment after meeting their essential expenses;

(d) persons who have a cognitive, neurological, psychiatric or psychological impairment or mental illness that has been established by medical evidence;

(e) persons who do not have access to safe, secure and adequate housing, or are using emergency accommodation or a refuge.

(2) Without limiting paragraph (1) (e), a person is taken not to have access to safe, secure, and adequate housing if:

(a) the housing to which the person has access:

(i) damages, or is likely to damage, the person’s health; or

(ii) threatens or is likely to threaten the person’s safety; or

(iii) does not provide the person with access to a reasonable level of personal amenities or the economic and social support that housing normally affords; or

(b) in the circumstances, the adequacy, safety, security or affordability of the housing to which the person has access is adversely affected or may be adversely affected; or

(c) the person does not have a right to remain, or a reasonable expectation of being able to remain, in the housing to which the person has access.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Social Security (Administration) (Ending Unemployment Non-payment Periods– Classes of Persons) (FaHCSIA) Specification 2009 (No. 1)

1 The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument

Social Security (Administration) (Ending Unemployment Non-payment Periods– Classes of Persons) (DEEWR) Specification 2009 (No. 1)

2 The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument