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and does not have a reasonable excuse for failing to attend, the job search allowance ceases to be payable to the person.
    "(4) Where a person is complying with a requirement made of the person under this section, the person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be eligible or qualified to receive the pension which the person was eligible or qualified to receive before that requirement was made.".
Commencement: 1 September 1987

Special temporary allowance
56. Section 172 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting all the material after paragraph (d) of the definition of "pension" in subsection (1) and substituting "and includes an allowance under section 31 or 143, a remote area allowance under

    Part III and a remote area allowance under section 57 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986"; and
    (b) by omitting "135b (3) or 135tj (1a)" from the definition of "pensioner" in subsection (1) and substituting "150 (2)".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Rates of certain pensions affected where certain education payments made
57. (1) Section 180 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end "or, if the person was receiving such a pension immediately before 21 October 1986 at a higher rate, at that higher rate".
Commencement: 1 January 1987

(2) Section 180 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
"(2) Where:
    (a) a person was receiving a widow's pension or a supporting parent's benefit immediately before 1 September 1987;
    (b) the person was, on that day, eligible to receive payments under the AUSTUDY scheme in respect of a full time course of education that the person had commenced before that day;
    (c) the person has a dependent child; and
    (d) apart from this subsection, the person would not be qualified to receive that pension or benefit at a time on or after that day because the child had attained the age of 16 years;
the person's qualification to receive that pension or benefit shall, while the person continues to be eligible to receive payments under the AUSTUDY scheme in respect of that full time course of education, continue as if the child had not attained that age.".
Commencement: 1 September 1987

Recovery of overpayments
58. (1) Section 181 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) "(including any amount payable by the person under subsection (3))" after "that amount" (second occurring).
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

(2) Section 181 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (3) (a) ", on or after 1 September 1987," after "a person is".
Commencement: 1 September 1987

Extra-territorial operation of certain provisions
59. Section 182 of