Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 5F

    A person is a secondary pupil child of another person at a time in a financial year if:

  (a)   at the time, the person:

  (i)   has turned 16 but has not turned 19; and

  (ii)   has not completed the final year of secondary school or an equivalent level of education; and

  (iii)   is undertaking secondary education or a course of study or instruction that is determined under section   5D of the Student Assistance Act 1973 to be a secondary course; and

  (b)   the person's income in the financial year will not be more than $6,403; and

  (c)   at the time, the person:

  (i)   lives with the other person; and

  (ii)   is wholly or substantially dependent on the other person; and

  (d)   if the person is a member of a couple, the other person is not the person's partner; and

  (e)   the other person is claiming or receiving any of the following at the time:

  (i)   parenting payment;

  (ii)   youth allowance;

  (iii)   jobseeker payment;

  (iv)   special benefit.

Note:   The amount in paragraph   (b) is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections   1191 to 1194).