

1998
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
A New Tax System (Compensation Measures Legislation Amendment) Bill 1998
No. , 1998
(Family and Community Services)
A Bill for an Act to provide for compensation measures related to the implementation of A New Tax System, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Social Security Act 1991 3
Part 1—Increases to rates and free areas 3
Part 2—Family assistance 25
Part 3—Taper rates 26
Schedule 2—Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 27
Part 1—Increases to rates and free areas 27
Part 2—Taper rates 39
Part 3—Increase in certain pensions 40
Schedule 3—National Health Act 1953 41
A Bill for an Act to provide for compensation measures related to the implementation of A New Tax System, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the A New Tax System (Compensation Measures Legislation Amendment) Act 1998.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedules 1, 2 and 3 commence, or are taken to have commenced:
(a) after all the provisions listed in subsection (3) have commenced; and
(b) on the last day on which any of those provisions commenced.
(3) These are the provisions:
(a) section 1-2 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1998 ;
(b) section 2 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Imposition—Excise) Act 1998 ;
(c) section 2 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Imposition—Customs) Act 1998 ;
(d) section 2 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Imposition—General) Act 1998 ;
(e) section 2 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Administration) Act 1998 .
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Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.