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the person shall notify the Department accordingly within 14 days of so ceasing.
Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.".
Commencement: 15 November 1987

37. After section 117 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 2 of Part XIII:

Job search allowance
"117a. (1) A person who:
    (a) has attained the age of 16 years but has not attained the age of 18 years;
    (b) is not in receipt of a sickness benefit; and
    (c) would, apart from this subsection, be qualified to receive an unemployment benefit in respect of a period;
is not qualified to receive an unemployment benefit in respect of that period but is qualified to receive a benefit, to be known as a job search allowance, in respect of that period.
"(2) Where, apart from this subsection, a person would cease to be qualified to receive a job search allowance in respect of a period and become qualified to receive a sickness benefit in respect of that period, the person is not qualified to receive a sickness benefit, but continues to be qualified to receive a job search allowance, in respect of that period.
"(3) Where, under subsection (1) or (2), a person is not qualified to receive an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit, as the case may be, in respect of a period, this Act applies to the person as if references in this

Act (other than in section 116 or 117, as the case may be) to unemployment benefit or to sickness benefit, as the case may be, were references to job search allowance.
"(4) Where a person who is receiving a job search allowance attains the age of 18 years and becomes qualified to receive an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit, the person shall, subject to this Act, be paid an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit, as the case may be, from the day on which the person becomes so qualified.".
Commencement: 1 January 1988

Rate of unemployment or sickness benefit
38. (1) Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (4) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(a) the rate of an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit applicable to a married person under the preceding provisions of this section is less than:
           (i) if the person has a dependent child—the amount per week specified in paragraph (1) (d); or
           (ii) in any other case—the amount per week specified in paragraph (1) (e); and".
Commencement: 13 June 1987

(2) Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting from paragraphs (1) (b) and (c) "the benefit is an unemployment benefit and";
    (b) by adding "or" at the end