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2010
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Social Security Amendment (Income Support for Regional Students) Bill 2010
No. , 2010
(Senator Nash)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991 to improve income support for regional students, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Object.................................................................................................. 2
4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Social Security Act 1991 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991 to improve income support for regional students, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Income Support for Regional Students) Act 2010 .
This Act commences on 1 January 2011.
The object of this Act is to improve income support for regional students by extending the youth allowance to eligible students whose family home is in a location categorised under the Remoteness Structure as “Inner Regional Australia”.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.