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rate" and substituting the following definition:
       "junior or intermediate rate' means the rate referred to in paragraph 118 (1) (a) or (b); "; and
    (b) by omitting "1988" from the definition of "year to which this subsection applies" and substituting "1989".
Commencement: 1 January 1988

40. Section 120 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Rent assistance
"120. (1) In this section:
'entitlement period' means:
        (a) in relation to a person who is receiving an unemployment or sickness benefit and who, for a continuous period of more than 26 weeks (whether that period commenced before or after the commencement of this section):

           (i) has received or would, but for section 122, have received payments of a prescribed pension;
           (ii) has been in continuous full time training under a Labour Force Program and in receipt of payments under that scheme the amounts of which are calculated by reference to an amount of benefit;
           (iii) has been in continuous full time training under such a program and in receipt of payments by way of remuneration in respect of that training;
           (iv) has been in receipt of payments under the Adult Migrant Education Program; or
           (v) has been a person to whom 2 or more of the preceding subparagraphs applied successively;
        any part of that period (not including the first 26 weeks) in respect of which the person pays, or is liable to pay, rent at a weekly rate exceeding $15; and
        (b) in relation to a person who is qualified to receive an unemployment or sickness benefit and who, immediately before becoming so qualified, was receiving payments of a prescribed pension and:
           (i) an additional amount by way of rent assistance; or
           (ii) an incentive allowance under section 31 or 143;
     any period in respect of which the person pays, or is liable to pay, rent at a weekly rate exceeding $15;
    'parent' includes a step-parent or guardian.
"(2) Where:
    (a) the amount of a benefit payable to a person includes an amount per week under subsection (5) or (7); and
    (b) the benefit ceases to be payable to the person:
        (i) otherwise than by the operation of section 122; and
        (ii) for a period of not more than 4 weeks;
any period after the end of that period shall be taken to be an entitlement period in relation to the person.
"(3) For the purposes of the application of this section to a married person:
    (a) where the person is living with his or her spouse in their matrimonial home—any rent that the spouse pays, or is liable to pay, in respect of that home shall be taken to be paid, or payable, by the person;