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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 745M

Seasonal workers

  (1)   This section applies if, at any time during the 6 months immediately before the day on which a person who is a nominated visa holder lodges a claim for special benefit, the person or, if the person is a member of a couple, the person or the person's partner, has been engaged in seasonal work within the meaning of subsection   16A(1).

  (2)   Special benefit is not payable to the person:

  (a)   if the person is subject to a seasonal work preclusion period within the meaning of subsection   16A(1) (whether in relation to the claim referred to in subsection   (1) or any other claim under this Act) and the Secretary has not made a determination under subsection   (3) in relation to the person--for the person's seasonal work preclusion period; or

  (b)   if the Secretary has made a determination under subsection   (3) in relation to the person--for that part (if any) of the person's seasonal work preclusion period to which the person is subject as a result of the determination.

  (3)   If the Secretary is satisfied that a person is in severe financial hardship within the meaning of subsection   19C(2) or (3), whichever is appropriate, because the person has incurred unavoidable or reasonable expenditure within the meaning of subsection   19C(4) while the person is subject to a seasonal work preclusion period (whether in relation to the claim referred to in subsection   (1) or any other claim under this Act):

  (a)   the Secretary may determine that the person is not subject to the whole, or any part, of the preclusion period; and

  (b)   the determination has effect accordingly.


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