Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1067d
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1067D
Character Range: 1770582–1772214

1067D  Person required to live away from home

When a person is taken to be required to live away from home
 (1) A person is taken to be required to live away from home for the purposes of Part 2.11B and this Part if, and only if:
 (a) the person is not independent; and
 (b) the person does not live at the home of either or both his or her parents; and
 (c) the Secretary determines that:
 (i) the person needs to live away from home for the purpose of education, training, searching for employment or doing anything else in preparation for getting employment; or
 (ii) the likelihood of the person's getting employment will be significantly increased if the person lives away from home; or
 (iii) the person needs to live away from home because the person is a new apprentice.
Note: For parent see section 5 (paragraph (a) of that definition).

Matters to which Secretary is to have regard
 (3) In making a determination under subparagraph (1)(c)(ii), the Secretary is to have regard to:
 (a) the overall employment prospects for young people in the areas where the home is situated and in the area where the person is living; and
 (b) matters relating to the person that would affect the likelihood of the person's getting employment in those areas.

Parents of relationship children
 (4) If a person (other than a person who is an adopted child) is a relationship child of another person because he or she is a child of the other person, and of a third person, within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975, the other person and the third person are taken to be the person's only parents for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b).