Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061zr
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061ZR
Character Range: 1443195–1444265

1061ZR  Duration of newly arrived resident's waiting period
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a person is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period, the period:
 (a) starts on the day on which the person first became an Australian resident or a special category visa holder residing in Australia; and
 (b) ends when the person has been both:
 (i) an Australian resident or a special category visa holder residing in Australia; and
 (ii) in Australia;
  for a period of, or for periods totalling, 208 weeks.
 (2) If:
 (a) a person is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period; and
 (b) before, on or after the commencement of this subsection, the person applied for a visa that is in a class of visas determined by the Minister for the purposes of paragraph 739A(3)(b);
the waiting period:
 (c) starts on the day on which the person applied for that visa; and
 (d) ends when the person has been in Australia for a period of, or for periods totalling, 208 weeks after that day.

Subdivision C—Miscellaneous provisions relating to health care cards