Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:clause:1a_132
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1A cl 132
Character Range: 2912159–2913213

132  Saving—ABSTUDY recipients
 (1) If, immediately before 1 January 2001, a person was receiving:
 (a) a relevant pension; and
 (b) a payment under a provision of the ABSTUDY Scheme made on the basis that the person was a full‑time student;
this clause applies to the person.
 (2) In spite of the amendments of this Act made by Schedule 1 to the Family and Community Services (2000 Budget and Related Measures) Act 2000:
 (a) the person does not cease to be qualified for the relevant pension by reason only of those amendments; and
 (b) if the person continues, on and after 1 January 2001, to receive the same payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme, that payment (except where it is a payment of a pensioner education supplement) is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be income paid to, or on behalf of, the person.
 (3) In this clause:
relevant pension means:
 (a) age pension; or
 (b) bereavement allowance; or
 (c) carer payment; or
 (d) disability support pension; or
 (e) pension PP (single); or
 (f) widow B pension; or
 (g) wife pension.