Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:23:p22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23 (pt 22/23)
Character Range: 363692–366249

least the next 2 years; and
 (ii) unable to benefit within the next 2 years from participation in a program of assistance or a rehabilitation program or from the provision of supports or services specified in an instrument under subsection (4BA) and provided under an arrangement or grant under the Disability Services and Inclusion Act 2023; or
 (b) the person is permanently blind.
 (4BA) The Secretary may, by legislative instrument, specify supports or services for the purposes of subparagraph (4B)(a)(ii). The supports or services must be employment supports or services within the meaning of the Disability Services and Inclusion Act 2023.
 (4C) For the purposes of this Act, a person is in disability accommodation if:
 (a) the person:
 (i) is in accommodation for people with disabilities; or
 (ii) is:
 (A) in accommodation that is not the principal home of the parents or a parent of the person; and
 (B) receiving accommodation support services for people with disabilities; and
 (b) the accommodation, or services, for people with disabilities are funded wholly or partly by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
 (4CA) For the purposes of this Act, a person is in residential care if the person is being provided with residential care through an aged care service conducted by an approved provider (within the meaning of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018).
 (4CB) An expression used in subsection (4CA) and in the Aged Care Act 1997 has the same meaning in that subsection as in that Act.
 (4D) For the purposes of this Act, a person is living away from the person's parental home if the person is living away from:
 (a) where the person's parents have the same principal home—that home; or
 (b) where the person has only one parent—the principal home of that parent; or
 (c) where the person's parents have different principal homes—all of those homes.
 (5) For the purposes of this Act, a person is in gaol if:
 (a) the person is being lawfully detained (in prison or elsewhere) while under sentence for conviction of an offence and not on release on parole or licence; or
 (b) the person is undergoing a period of custody pending trial or sentencing for an offence.

Pension age
 (5A) A man born during the period specified in column 2 of an item in the following table reaches pension age when he turns the age specified in column 3 of that item.

Table—Pension age for men
Column 1                   Column 2                          Column 3
Item                       Period during which man was born  Pension age