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in force at that time;
that paragraph continues, while the person continues to be qualified to receive a sickness benefit, to apply to the person until:
    (c) the person ceases to be a person referred to in that paragraph; or
    (d) paragraph 118 (1) (c) of that Act becomes applicable to the person.
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(7) Section 119 of the Social Security Act 1947 shall, notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection 37 (2) of the Social Security and Veterans' Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1986, be deemed not to affect the rate of benefit referred to in paragraph 118 (1) (a) or (b) in relation to the year commencing on 1 January 1988.
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(8) Where:
    (a) a person was receiving a sickness benefit immediately before 13 December 1987; and
    (b) the rate of that benefit was increased under section 120 of the Principal Act;
the rate of that increase shall, until a higher rate of increase becomes applicable to the person under section 120 of the Social Security Act 1947 as amended by this Act, continue to be calculated under section 120 of that Act before it was so amended.
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

(9) Notwithstanding the amendment made by section 44, section 127 of the Social Security Act 1947, as in force before 1 September 1987 continues to apply to a person who ceased to undertake a course of education on a full time basis before 1 September 1987.
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(10) The agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of New Zealand providing for reciprocity in matters relating to social security that was signed at Sydney on 15 April 1949 shall, during the period commencing on 1 July 1987 and ending on the day before the day on which the agreement set out in Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1947 comes into force, be deemed to have had the same effect in relation to that Act as it had immediately before the commencement of that period.
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(11) Subsection 19 (2a) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 does not operate to prevent a pension being payable, or to reduce the rate of a pension that is payable, to a veteran who was receiving a pension on the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent.
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(12) Notwithstanding the amendment made by section 96, an instrument in force under subsection 202 (1) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 immediately before the commencement of this subsection continues in force, subject to subsection 202 (4) of that Act, on and after that commencement.
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