Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00215:clause:5_550:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00215
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 550 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 128904–131644

550  Youth allowance participation failures

Meaning of youth participation failure

 (1) A person commits a youth allowance participation failure if the person:
 (a) fails to comply with a requirement:
 (i) that was notified to the person under subsection 63(2) or 64(2) of the Administration Act; and
 (ii) that was reasonable; and
 (iii) the notification of which included a statement to the effect that a failure to comply with the requirement could constitute a youth allowance participation failure; or
 (b) fails to satisfy the activity test; or
 (c) fails to comply with a requirement to enter into a Youth Allowance Activity Agreement; or
 (d) fails to comply with a term of a Youth Allowance Activity Agreement between the Secretary and the person; or
 (e) fails to attend a job interview; or
 (f) fails:
 (i) to commence, complete or participate in an approved program of work for income support payment that the person is required to undertake; or
 (ii) to comply with the conditions of such a program; or
 (g) fails to continue his or her involvement in a labour market program because he or she:
 (i) voluntarily ceases to take part in the program; or
 (ii) is dismissed from the program for misconduct; or
 (h) is issued with a notice under subsection 550A(1) and fails to comply with it within the period specified in the notice; or
 (i) fails to comply with subsection 550A(2); or
 (j) fails to comply with a requirement included in a Youth Allowance Activity Agreement between the Secretary and the person to:
 (i) undertake a certain number of job searches per fortnight; and
 (ii) keep a record of the person's job searches in a document referred to in the agreement as a job seeker diary; and
 (iii) return the job seeker diary to the Department at the end of the period specified in the agreement; or
 (k) fails to comply with a requirement to undertake another activity referred to in paragraph 550B(1)(b).

Reasonable excuse

 (2) Despite subsection (1), a failure of a kind referred to in that subsection is not a youth allowance participation failure if the person satisfies the Secretary that the person had a reasonable excuse for the failure.

 (2A) The Secretary must, by legislative instrument, determine matters that the Secretary must take into account in deciding whether, for the purposes of subsection (2), a person had a reasonable excuse for committing a youth allowance participation failure.

 (2B) To avoid doubt, a determination under subsection (2A) does not limit the matters that the Secretary may take into account in deciding whether, for the purposes of subsection (2), a person had a reasonable excuse for committing the youth allowance participation failure referred to in subsection (1).