Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539:body:0:p17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 40690–43465

a prescribed pension and the direction was given because of the illness or infirmity of the wife, a dependent child of the wife shall be taken to be a dependent child of the husband and not of the wife.".
Commencement: 24 December 1987

(3) Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting paragraph (4) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:
      "(b) $260 per annum in respect of each dependent child:
          (i) who is a prescribed student child of the person;

          (ii) who was, immediately before 1 January 1988, a student child to whom or in respect of whom a payment of a kind referred to in paragraph 3 (13) (a), (b) or (c) was being made; and
          (iii) who was, immediately before that day, a person in respect of whom an increase in the maximum rate of a prescribed pension was applicable."; and
    (b) by omitting subsection (11) and substituting the following subsection:
    "(11) Subsection (10) applies to a person who:
       (a) has at least one dependent child:
           (i) who is a prescribed student child of the person;
           (ii) who was, immediately before 1 January 1988, a student child to whom or in respect of whom a payment of a kind referred to in paragraph 3 (13) (a), (b) or (c) was being made; and
           (iii) who was, immediately before that day, a person in respect of whom an increase in the maximum rate of a prescribed pension was applicable; and
       (b) does not have a dependent child who is not a child to whom paragraph (a) applies;
    as if references in that subsection to the greater or greatest amount per annum that could be applicable to the person under a paragraph of subsection (4) if subsection (6) did not apply to the person were references to $260.".
Commencement: 1 January 1988

Rent assistance
19. Section 36 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) "or subsection 38 (2)".
Commencement: 24 December 1987

Repeal of section 38
20. Section 38 of the Principal Act is repealed.
Commencement: 24 December 1987

Carer's pension
21. Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) "a relative of the person" and substituting "another person";
    (b) by omitting from subsection (1) "the relative" (wherever occurring) and substituting "the other person";
    (c) by omitting from subsection (2) "a relative" and substituting "another person";
    (d) by omitting from subsection (3) the definition of "relative"; and

    (c) by omitting paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the definition of "severely handicapped person" in subsection (3) and substituting the following paragraphs:
        "(a) has a physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability; and
         (b) because of that disability, requires: