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Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Act 1998
No. 93, 1998
Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Act 1998
No. 93, 1998
An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991 and the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 , and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................
2............ Commencement..................................................................................
3............ Schedule(s).........................................................................................
Schedule 1—Amendments to extend qualification for carer payment to the carers of profoundly disabled children
Social Security Act 1991
Schedule 2—Amendments to provide for the consistent treatment of lump sums
Social Security Act 1991
Schedule 3—Amendments relating to income streams
Social Security Act 1991
Part 1—Amendment of the Social Security Act 1991
Part 2—Amendment of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
Schedule 4—Amendments relating to seasonal workers
Social Security Act 1991
Schedule 5—Amendments to apply hardship rules to income maintenance periods
Social Security Act 1991
Social Security Legislation Amendment (Parenting and Other Measures) Act 1997
Schedule 6—Amendments relating to the Commonwealth Service Delivery Agency
Social Security Act 1991
Student and Youth Assistance Act 1973
Schedule 7—Amendment of various Acts consequential upon the change of name of family payment to family allowance
Part 1—Amendments that take effect irrespective of other amendments
Bankruptcy Act 1966
Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990
Farm Household Support Act 1992
Health Insurance Act 1973
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
Medicare Levy Act 1986
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
Part 2—Amendment of the Childcare Rebate Act 1993
Schedule 8—Amendments relating to changes to the Farm Household Support Act 1992
Social Security Act 1991
Schedule 9—Amendments relating to mobility allowance
Social Security Act 1991
Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Act 1998
No. 93, 1998
An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991 and the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, and for related purposes
[ Assented to 15 July 1998 ]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Act 1998 .
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedules 1 and 2 commence on 1 July 1998.
(3) Schedule 3 commences on 20 September 1998.
(4) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), Schedule 4 commences on 1 July 1998.
(5) Items 3 to 11 (inclusive) of Schedule 4 commence on 1 July 1998, immediately after the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Parenting and Other Measures) Act 1997 .
(6) Items 18 and 19 of Schedule 4 commence immediately after the commencement of the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Allowance) Act 1998 .
(7) Items 1 to 11 (inclusive) of Schedule 5 commence on 1 July 1999.
(8) Items 44 to 47 (inclusive), 50, 140 to 143 (inclusive) and 146 of Schedule 6 commence immediately before the commencement of Schedule 20 to the Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Family and Other Measures) Act 1997.
(9) Schedule 7 commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 1 April 1998.
(10) Item 1 of Schedule 9 is taken to have commenced on 17 December 1997.
3 Schedule(s )
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.