Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997
No. 21, 1997
An Act to amend the Farm Household Support Act 1992
Contents
1 Short title..................................1
2 Commencement..............................1
3 Schedule(s).................................2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Farm Household Support Act 1992 3
Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997
No. 21, 1997
An Act to amend the Farm Household Support Act 1992
[Assented to 7 April 1997]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the 28th day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendment of the Farm Household Support Act 1992
1 After Part 1
Insert:
Part 1A—Termination of farm household support
6A Termination of farm household support
(1) Farm household support is not payable to a person in respect of a day (the day in question) unless farm household support is payable to the person in respect of:
(a) the cutoff day; and
(b) each day between the cutoff day and the day in question.
For this purpose, cutoff day means the day on which this section commenced.
Example 1: Farm household support was not payable to a person in respect of the cutoff day. The person can never again become entitled to be paid farm household support for any period after the cutoff day.
Example 2: Farm household support was payable to a person for a continuous period that started before the cutoff day and ended 3 months after the cutoff day. The person can never again become entitled to be paid farm household support for any period later than 3 months after the cutoff day.
(2) This section has effect despite anything else in this Act.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 4 December 1996
Senate on 24 February 1997]
(188/96)