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14  Application and transitional provisions—disability support pension rate for a severely disabled person
(1) The amendments of section 1220B of the Social Security Act 1991 made by this Schedule apply in relation to the following:
 (a) a period of absence from Australia starting on or after the commencement of this item;
 (b) a period of absence from Australia starting before that commencement, where the person is absent from Australia immediately before that commencement and where:
 (i) the 26 weeks mentioned in paragraph 1220B(1)(a) of that Act had not ended immediately before that commencement; or
 (ii) under subsection 1220B(3) of that Act, as in force before 1 July 2021, the Secretary had determined another number of weeks with the result that the period referred to in paragraph 1220B(1)(a) of that Act ended at the end of 30 June 2021.
(2) If the amendments of section 1220B of the Social Security Act 1991 made by this Schedule apply in relation to a period of absence because of the operation of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) of this item, then, at the commencement of this subitem, a reference to 26 weeks in paragraph 1220B(1)(a) of that Act, and each reference to 26 weeks in subsection 1220B(1A) of that Act, is taken to be a reference to that other number of weeks.