Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Act 2011 (Cth)

Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Act 2011

No. 49, 2011

An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991, and for related purposes

Contents

Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Act 2011

No. 49, 2011

An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991, and for related purposes

[Assented to 27 June 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Act 2011.

2Commencement

This Act commences on 1 July 2011.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Parenting payment transitional arrangement

Social Security Act 1991

1

After paragraph 500D(3)(c)

Insert:

1. (ca)

   the person was the principal carer of the child immediately before 1 July 2011; and

2

Application

Paragraph 500D(3)(ca) of the Social Security Act 1991 applies for the purpose of determining whether a person is a PP child of another person on or after 1 July 2011.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 May 2011

Senate on 14 June 2011]

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