Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2011A00145:clause:3_5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2011A00145
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 5
Character Range: 7132–8530

5  Application
(1) The amendments made by items 1, 2 (so far as it inserts section 26 of the Social Security Act 1991) and 4 apply for the purposes of working out a person's qualification for disability support pension in respect of days occurring on or after 1 January 2012.
(2) However, if:
 (a) a claim for disability support pension is made, or is taken to have been made, by a person before 1 January 2012; and
 (b) the Secretary has not determined the claim before 1 January 2012;
those amendments do not apply in relation to working out the person's qualification for disability support pension in respect of days occurring on or before the day on which the Secretary determines the claim.
(3) Subsections 27(1) and (2) of the Social Security Act 1991, as inserted by this Schedule, apply in relation to claims for disability support pension made, or taken to have been made, on or after the commencement of this item.
(4) Subsections 27(3) and (4) of the Social Security Act 1991, as inserted by this Schedule, apply in relation to a person receiving disability support pension on or after the commencement of this item (whether the person started to receive that pension before, on or after that commencement).
Note: Sections 12, 13 and 15 of the Administration Act and clause 4 of Schedule 2 to that Act deal with claims for disability support pension that are taken to have been made.