Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1209J

    In determining the scope of the power conferred on a person (the tax official ) during the transitional period by paragraph   16(4)(e) or (eb) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 to communicate information for the purpose of the administration of any law of the Commonwealth relating to pensions, allowances or benefits, it is to be assumed that:

  (a)   section   1207 (simplified outline) had effect as if the reference in that section to 1   January 2002 were a reference to the first day of the transitional period; and

  (b)   section   1207Y (attribution of income) had effect, in relation to a particular individual and a particular company or trust, as if:

  (i)   a tax year of the company or trust, being a tax year specified in a written notice given to the tax official by the Secretary, were a derivation period of the company or trust; and

  (ii)   a period specified in a written notice given to the tax official by the Secretary were an attribution period of the company or trust, and that attribution period related to a specified derivation period of the company or trust; and

  (iii)   the reference in paragraph   1207Y(1)(c) to 1   January 2002 were a reference to the first day of the transitional period; and

  (iv)   sections   1208C and 1208D had not been enacted; and

  (c)   section   1208E (attribution of assets) had effect as if the reference in paragraph   1208E(1)(a) to 1   January 2002 were a reference to the first day of the transitional period.