Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:16a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16A (pt 2/7)
Character Range: 242897–245522

is seasonal work for the purposes of this Act.

Seasonal work preclusion periods
 (3) If:
 (a) a person is not a member of a couple; and
 (b) the person has made a claim for jobseeker payment, youth allowance, special benefit, parenting payment, disability support pension, carer payment or austudy payment; and
 (c) the person was engaged in seasonal work at any time during the 6 months immediately before the day on which the person lodged the claim;
the person's seasonal work preclusion period in relation to the claim is the period consisting of the number of weeks worked out under subsection (5) that starts on the day on which the claim was lodged.
 (4) If:
 (a) a person is a member of a couple; and
 (b) the person has made a claim for jobseeker payment, parenting payment, youth allowance, special benefit, disability support pension, carer payment or austudy payment; and
 (c) the person, or the person's partner, or both, were engaged in seasonal work at any time during the 6 months immediately before the day on which the person lodged the claim;
the person's seasonal work preclusion period in relation to the claim is the period consisting of the number of weeks worked out under subsection (6), (7) or (8) that starts on the day on which the claim was lodged.
 (5) If the person is not a member of a couple, the number of weeks in the person's seasonal work preclusion period is worked out as follows:

      Method statement
           Step 1. Identify each period of continuous seasonal work by the person that ended during the 6 months immediately before the day on which the claim was lodged. If the person has performed seasonal work during 2 periods that are less than 14 days apart, the periods of work and the intervening period are taken to be one continuous period during which the person has performed seasonal work.
           Step 2. If a period identified in Step 1 has already been taken into account when working out a seasonal work preclusion period in relation to a previous claim by the person (whether for the same or a different allowance or payment), disregard the period. Each remaining period is called a relevant period of seasonal work.
           Step 3. Work out the amount of seasonal work income earned by the person during each of the person's relevant periods of seasonal work, disregarding any income by way of a lump sum that was earned during that period but was not paid to the person before the day on which the claim was lodged.
           Step 4. Add together the amounts worked out in Step 3. The result is called the person's seasonal work earnings.
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