Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1262

  (1)   For any provision of the social security law covered by subsection   (2), the Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine:

  (a)   that the provision is varied as specified in the determination; or

  (b)   that the provision does not apply; or

  (c)   that the provision does not apply and that another provision specified in the determination applies instead.

Note:   Section   1263 deals with the period the determination is in force.

Provisions able to be modified

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), the provisions are the following:

  (a)   subsection   23(4A) or (4AA);

  (b)   paragraph   500(1)(d) and subsections   500(3) and (4);

  (c)   section   500WA;

  (d)   section   500WB;

  (e)   section   500X;

  (f)   section   500Y;

  (g)   section   500Z;

  (h)   subsection   540BA(4);

  (i)   section   549CA;

  (j)   section   549CB;

  (k)   section   549D;

  (l)   section   549E;

  (m)   section   553C;

  (n)   section   575D;

  (o)   section   575E;

  (p)   section   575EA;

  (q)   Part   2.12, in relation to working out whether a person is a member of a couple;

  (r)   subsection   593(8);

  (s)   section   620;

  (t)   section   621;

  (u)   section   623A;

  (v)   section   623B;

  (w)   section   633;

  (x)   subsection   654(3);

  (y)   section   739A;

  (z)   section   745M;

  (za)   section   1046;

  (zb)   Module H of the Youth Allowance Rate Calculator in section   1067G, in relation to working out the rate of youth allowance where neither section   540AA (about new apprentices) nor paragraph   541(1)(a) (about full - time study) applies;

  (zc)   Part   3.6, in relation to working out whether a person is a member of a couple for the purposes of working out the rate of jobseeker payment;

  (zd)   Module G of Benefit Rate Calculator B in section   1068, in relation to working out the rate of jobseeker payment;

  (ze)   section   1216;

  (zf)   Division   3 of Part   4.2;

  (zg)   clause   128 of Schedule   1A.

Determination to be in response to COVID - 19

  (3)   The Minister must be satisfied that a determination under subsection   (1) is in response to circumstances relating to the coronavirus known as COVID - 19.

Application of determination

  (4)   A determination under subsection   (1) must be expressed to:

  (a)   apply to all persons; or

  (b)   apply to a specified class or specified classes of persons.

Determination may provide for things to have been done before commencement

  (5)   A determination under subsection   (1) may provide that a person is taken to have done a specified thing on a day before the determination commences.

Determination has effect accordingly

  (6)   A determination under subsection   (1) has effect accordingly.

Definitions

  (7)   In this section:

"Minister" means the Minister administering the Social Security (International Agreements) Act 1999 .