Social Security (Family Law Affected Income Streams) Amendment Principles 2025

I, Gillian Beer, delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following Principles.

Dated  19 March 2025  

Gillian Beer

Branch Manager, Payment Structures and Seniors Branch
Delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Social Security (Family Law Affected Income Streams) Principles 2022 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Family Law Affected Income Streams) Amendment Principles 2025.

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Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 1099DD and subsection 1120A(5) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended 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 (Family Law Affected Income Streams) Principles 2022

1  Section 4 (definition of allocated pension)

Omit “regulation 3 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2001”, substitute “section 4 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2025”.  

2  Section 4 (definition of base amount allocated to the non-member spouse)

Omit “regulation 45 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2001”, substitute “section 72 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2025”.  

3  Section 4 (definition of market linked pension)

Omit “regulation 3 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2001”, substitute “section 4 of the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2025”.