Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:623a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 623A
Character Range: 962631–964475

623A  Newly arrived resident's waiting period
 (1) Subject to this section, a person who:
 (a) has entered Australia; and
 (b) has not been an Australian resident and in Australia for a period of, or periods totalling, 208 weeks;
is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who has a qualifying residence exemption for a jobseeker payment.
Note: For qualifying residence exemption in relation to jobseeker payment, see paragraph 7(6AA)(f).
 (7) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person:
 (a) is the principal carer of one or more children; and
 (b) is not a member of a couple; and
 (c) was not a lone parent at the start of the person's current period as an Australian resident.
Note 1: For principal carer see subsections 5(15) to (24).
Note 2: For lone parent and current period as an Australian resident see subsection 23(1).
 (8) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if:
 (a) the person is a refugee, or a former refugee, at the time the person made the claim for a jobseeker payment; or
 (b) the following apply:
 (i) before the person made the claim for a jobseeker payment, the person was a family member of another person at the time the other person became a refugee;
 (ii) the person is a family member of that other person at the time the person made the claim for a jobseeker payment or, if that other person has died, the person was a family member of that other person immediately before that other person died; or
 (c) the person is an Australian citizen at the time the person made the claim for a jobseeker payment.
 (9) For the purposes of subsection (8):
 (a) family member has the meaning given by subsection 7(6D); and
 (b) former refugee has the meaning given by subsection 7(1); and
 (c) refugee has the meaning given by subsection 7(6B).