Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:16a:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16A (pt 6/7)
Character Range: 252470–255129

a relevant period of seasonal work.
           Step 3. Work out the total amount of income from personal exertion earned by the person during the partner's relevant periods of seasonal work. The result is called the person's earnings.
           Step 4. Work out the amount of seasonal work income earned by the partner during each of the partner'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 partner before the day on which the claim was lodged.
           Step 5. Add together the amounts worked out in Step 4. The result is called the partner's seasonal work earnings.
           Step 6. Add the partner's seasonal work earnings and the person's earnings. The result is called the couple's combined earnings.
           Step 7. Divide the couple's combined earnings by twice the amount of the relevant AWOTE for the calendar year in which the claim was lodged. The result is called the couple's AWOTE weeks and represents the number of weeks (including any part of a week) that 2 persons, each paid at a rate equal to the relevant AWOTE for that calendar year, would have to work to earn together an amount equal to the couple's combined earnings.
           Step 8. Work out the number of weeks in the partner's relevant periods of seasonal work by dividing the total number of days included in those periods by 7. The result (including any part of a week) is called the partner's seasonal work weeks.
           Step 8A. If there is a period between one relevant period of seasonal work and another, or between a relevant period of seasonal work and the day on which the claim was lodged, work out the number of weeks in the period (the intervening period). This is done by dividing the total number of days in the intervening period by 7.
           Step 8B. If there is more than one intervening period, add together the number of weeks worked out for each intervening period. The result (including any part of a week) is called the partner's intervening weeks.
           Step 8C. Add together the number of seasonal work weeks worked out under Step 8 and the number of intervening weeks (if any) worked out under Step 8B. The result (including any part of a week) is called the partner's self‑supported weeks.
           Step 9. Subtract the partner's self‑supported weeks from the couple's AWOTE weeks. The result (rounded down, if necessary, to the nearest whole number) is the number of weeks in the person's seasonal work preclusion period. If the result is a negative number, the number of weeks in the period is taken to be nil.
Note 1: For relevant