Social Security (Dependants—Concession Cards) Amendment (Visa Holders Connected with the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme) Declaration 2024

I, Amanda Rishworth, Minister for Social Services, make the following Declaration.

Dated 13 March 2024

Amanda Rishworth

Minister for Social Services

Contents

Social Security (Dependants–Concession Cards) Declaration 2018   2

1        Name

This instrument is the Social Security (Dependants–Concession Cards) Amendment (Visa Holders Connected with the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme) Declaration 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 240B(5) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Social Security (Dependants—Concession Cards) Declaration 2018

1 Section 4

 After the definition of member of a couple, insert:

member of the family unit has the same meaning as in the Migration Act 1958;

2                     At the end of section 5

Insert:

Visa holders connected with the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme

(3)               A person who is, or has been, in Australia as the holder of a visa granted on the basis that the person is a member of the family unit of another person (the other person), where the other person:

(a)          is, or has been, in Australia as the holder of a visa granted on the basis that the other person is a participant, as a worker, in the scheme known as the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme; and

(b)          has been approved by a Department, in the course of administering the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, to bring members of the family unit of the other person to Australia;

is declared to be a person to whom subparagraph 240B(4)(a)(iii) of the Administration Act applies.