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CONTENTS
Passage History
Purpose
Background
Main Provisions
Contact Officer & Copyright Details
Social Security (Administration and
International Agreements) (Consequential Amendments) Bill
1999
Date Introduced: 3 June 1999
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Family and Community Services
Commencement: 20 March 2000 for most provisions,
however some rounding off provisions will commence on 1 July
2000
To amend and repeal provisions of the Social
Security Act 1991 consequential upon the amendments proposed
by the Social Security (Administration) Bill 1999 and the Social
Security (International Agreements) Bill 1999.
The reader is referred to the background
material in the Bills Digest prepared for the Social
Security (Administration) Bill 1999.
The three proposed schedules amend and repeal
parts of the Social Security Act 1991 as follows:
Schedule 1 deals with the
amendments consequent on the enactment of the proposed Social
Security (Administration) Act 1999.
Schedule
2 deals with the amendments consequent on the enactment of
the proposed Social Security (International Agreements) Act
1999.
Schedule 3 repeals Part 9 of
the proposed Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
which will become redundant once clause 53 of that Act comes into
operation. Proposed section 53 of the Social
Security (Administration) Bill 1999 provides for a single 'round
off' provision (under which payments are to be rounded to the
nearest cent) for all social security payments.
Kirsty Magarey
15 August 1999
Bills Digest Service
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