Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:clause:1a_63:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1A cl 63 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 2881812–2884354

or payment rate were neither income reduced nor assets reduced; and
 (b) the amount by way of rent assistance were calculated under this Act as in force immediately before 20 March 1993.
 (5) Subject to subclause (6), subclause (1) or (3) ceases to apply to a person if:
 (a) the person ceases to receive a social security pension, social security benefit or additional family payment; or
 (b) the person ceases to be qualified for rent assistance; or
 (c) the Secretary considers that there is a significant change in the person's circumstances that would affect the amount of rent assistance that is payable to the person apart from this clause; or
 (d) the amount of rent assistance that would be payable to the person if this clause applied is less than (or equal to) the amount of rent assistance that would otherwise be payable.
 (6) If:
 (a) subclause (1) or (3) ceases to apply to a person; and
 (b) within 42 days, or such longer period as the Secretary determines, of that subclause ceasing to apply to the person, there is a change in the person's circumstances; and
 (c) the Secretary considers that the change in the person's circumstances is so significant that subclause (1) or (3) should apply to the person;
the Secretary may determine that subclause (1) or (3) is to apply to the person from a specified date.
 (7) If:
 (a) subclause (1) or (3) applies to a person; and
 (b) the person becomes a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person's partner is a person to whom subclause (1) or (3) applies;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension, benefit or payment rate and the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's partner's pension, benefit or payment rate is not to fall below one‑half of the person's floor amount or one‑half of the person's partner's floor amount, whichever is the greater.
 (8) If:
 (a) subclause (1) or (3) applies to a person; and
 (b) the person becomes a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person's partner is a person to whom section 111 of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1992 applies or would apply if it had not been repealed;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension, benefit or payment rate is not to fall below one‑half of the person's floor amount or one‑half of the person's partner's floor amount, whichever is the greater.
 (9) If:
 (a) subclause (1) or (3) applies to a person; and
 (b) the person becomes a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person's partner