Social Security (Personal Care Support – National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland) Determination 2017 (Cth)

Social Security (Personal Care Support – National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland) Determination 2017

Social Security Act 1991

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I, Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services, make the following Determination.

Dated:            18 July   2017

Christian Porter

Minister for Social Services

1.    Name of determination

This determination is the Social Security (Personal Care Support – National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland) Determination 2017.

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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. Authority

This instrument is made under section 35A of the Social Security Act 1991.

1. Personal care support scheme

(1)       The scheme for the provision of personal care support known as the National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland is an approved scheme for the purposes of section 35A of the Social Security Act 1991.

(2)       In this determination, the National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland means the fully-funded, no-fault lifetime care and support scheme for people with catastrophic injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents, consistent with national agreed minimum benchmarks, which was established by commencement of the National Injury Insurance Scheme (Queensland) Act 2016 on 1 July 2016.