Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539:body:0:p37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539
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(1), where a person is, under another section of this Act, deemed to have lodged a claim for an unemployment benefit on a day before the day on which the person actually lodged the claim, that earlier day shall be taken to be the lodgment day.
"(5) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), any period commencing after a person ceases to undertake a course of education during which the person is qualified to receive a sickness benefit or has been paid special benefit shall be taken to be a period during which the person is engaged in full time employment.
"(6) Where paragraph (1) (a) ceases to apply to a person as mentioned in paragraph (1) (b) or (c) otherwise than because the person attains the age of 21 years, an unemployment benefit is not payable to the person in respect of any period of unemployment before:
    (a) the end of the period of 13 weeks referred to in paragraph (1) (a); or
    (b) the person notifies the Department that the person has ceased to be a person to whom paragraph (1) (a) applies;
whichever first occurs.
"(7) Where:
    (a) subsection (1) applies to a person;
    (b) an unemployment benefit would not, under this section, be payable to the person during a particular period; and
    (c) that period is longer than the period (in this subsection referred to as the 'shorter period') commencing on the day on which the person actually lodged the claim for the unemployment benefit and ending at the end of 6 months after the person ceased to undertake the course of education;
the shorter period shall be treated as the period during which an unemployment benefit is not payable to the person under this section.
"(8) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, section 116 and subsection 125 (2), where a person to whom subsection (1) applies registers with the Commonwealth Employment Service as being unemployed within 4 weeks of ceasing to undertake the course of education, the person shall be taken to have become so registered on the day on which the person ceased to undertake the course.
"(9) Notwithstanding subsection (8) of this section and subsection 125 (2), where a person to whom subsection (1) applies:

    (a) registers with the Commonwealth Employment Service as being unemployed within 4 weeks of ceasing to undertake the course of education; and
    (b) lodges a claim for an unemployment benefit within 6 weeks of ceasing to undertake the course;
the person shall, for the purposes of this Part, be taken to have lodged the claim on the first day after the person ceased to undertake the course on which the person was qualified to