User Rights Amendment Principles 2000 (No. 5)
I, BRONWYN KATHLEEN BISHOP, Minister for Aged Care, make these Principles under subsection 96-1 (1) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated 28 July 2000
BRONWYN BISHOP
Minister for Aged Care
1 Name of Principles
These Principles are the User Rights Amendment Principles 2000 (No. 5).
2 Commencement
These Principles commence on gazettal.
3 Amendment of User Rights Principles 1997
Schedule 1 amends the User Rights Principles 1997.
Schedule 1 Amendment
(section 3)
[1] Subsection 23.89 (5)
substitute
(5) For this section:
income:
(a) means income after income tax and medicare levy; and
(b) does not include:
(i) pharmaceutical allowance, rent assistance or telephone allowance payable under the Social Security Act 1991 or the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986; or
(ii) a pension supplement payable under the Social Security Act 1991 or the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986; or
(iii) in relation to a pension payable under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (except a service pension), an amount equal to 4% of the amount of the pension.
Note 1 From 1 July 2000 the A New Tax System (Compensation Measures Legislation Amendment) Act 1999 introduced pension supplement for some kinds of pensions (including service pensions under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986).
Note 2 A pension mentioned in subparagraph (iii) is payable at a rate that may be determined under or by reference to any of the following provisions of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986:
- subsection 22 (3) (which deals with the general rate of disability pension)
- subsection 23 (4) (which deals with the intermediate rate of disability pension)
- subsection 24 (4) (which deals with the special rate of disability pension)
- subsection 27 (1) (which deals with disability pension for tabled injuries)
- subsection 30 (1), including a pension payable because of Part IV (known as a widow’s or widower’s pension)
- subsection 30 (2) (which deals with disability pension for orphans).