Bills Digest no. 141 2005–06
Social
Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous
Measures) Bill 2006
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CONTENTS
Passage History
Purpose
Main Provisions
Contact Officer & Copyright Details
Passage History
Social Security
and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill
2006
Date
introduced:
30 March 2006
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Families, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs
Commencement: Most provisions
commence on Royal Assent. However a few are backdated to correct technical
anomalies in legislation passed as early as 2000.
The Bill makes minor and technical amendments to remove anomalies,
repeal redundant provisions and clarify the legislation in line with
current policy. There are no new policy initiatives in this Bill.
There are no financial implications.
Only provisions which do not merely correct errors or provide clarification
are mentioned here.
Items 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 ensure that care provided as part
of the compulsory education program of a school cannot give rise to
Child Care Benefit eligibility, where outside school hours care is provided
at the school.
Item 1 of Schedule 3 repeals paragraph 4(9A)(b) of the Social
Security Act 1991 which requires that a temporarily separated couple
must be legally married. This was preventing de facto couples from receiving
higher rates of certain supplementary payments where they were temporarily
separated for reasons other than illness or respite.
Item 7 of Schedule 3 makes it clear that Remote Area Allowance
is payable to residents of Lord Howe Island.
Item 72 of Schedule 3 includes Carer Allowance in the list of
payments not payable during imprisonment.
Dale Daniels
Social Policy Section
23 May 2006
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