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that have accrued at the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent or that accrue after that day.
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(13) The amendments made by sections 104 and 113 apply to payments under the Seamen's War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940 that fall due on or after 17 December 1987.
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Transitional and savings provisions
4. (1) Where, on 13 December 1987, a person who is in receipt of an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit is absent from the principal home of the person, subsection 4 (8) of the Social Security Act 1947 applies to the person as if that period of absence had commenced on that day.
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(2) Section 11 of the Social Security Act 1947 continues to apply to a person who ceases to receive full time education at a school, college or university after 1 September 1987 and before 1 January 1988 for a period of 6 weeks after the person so ceases.
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(3) A person who was, immediately before 17 December 1987, receiving payments under Part IX of the Social Security Act 1947 in respect of a child shall, subject to Part IX of that Act as amended by this Act, continue to be entitled to receive payments under the last-mentioned Part in respect of that child for the period during which the person was entitled to receive payments in respect of that child under the first-mentioned Part.
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(4) A person who is or becomes entitled to receive a handicapped child's allowance in respect of a child in respect of the period ending on 14 November 1987 is, subject to Part XII of the Social Security Act 1947, entitled to receive a child disability allowance in respect of that child.
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(5) A reference in a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, or in an instrument or document, to a handicapped child's allowance shall, in relation to things done on and after 15 November 1987, be read as a reference to a child disability allowance.
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(6) Where:
    (a) a person was receiving a sickness benefit immediately before 13 December 1987; and
    (b) the rate of benefit applicable to the person at that time was the rate referred to in paragraph 118 (1) (e) of the Social Security Act 1947 as 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