Social Security (Administration) (Authorised Certifier) Amendment (Additional Classes of Persons) Determination 2024

I, Ray Griggs, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following determination.

Dated 7 February 2024

Ray Griggs AO CSC

Secretary of the Department of Social Services

Contents

1 Name..............................................1

2 Commencement........................................1

3 Authority............................................1

4 Schedules............................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Social Security (Administration) (Authorised Certifier) Determination 2019 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Administration) (Authorised Certifier) Amendment (Additional Classes of Persons) Determination 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 63A(9) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

4  Definitions

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Administration) (Authorised Certifier) Determination 2019

1  Section 4

After the definition of “Act”, insert:

municipal authority means the local government authority, agency, corporation, department, instrumentality or other local or regional political unit which governs or administers the locality or region of the place in which the social security recipient resides.

pension agency means the agency or authority responsible for the administration and payment of pensions and benefits in the country in which the social security recipient resides.

2  At the end of paragraph 5(3)(b)

Omit “.”, insert:

; (c) an official (however described) of a municipal authority or pension agency.