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pensioner is receiving his pension ceasing to be a severely handicapped woman; or";
     (f) by omitting from sub-section (6a) "or (2)" and substituting ", (2) or (3)"; and
     (g) by inserting after sub-section (7) the following sub-sections:
     "(7a) A carer pensioner shall not leave the matrimonial home of the person for a period exceeding 4 weeks without first giving notice to the Secretary at any address of the Department of his intention to do so.
     "(7b) A person who is in receipt of a remote area allowance under section 98aa shall not leave the remote area for a period exceeding 8 weeks without first giving notice to the Secretary at any address of the Department of his intention to do so.".
(2) Section 96 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the penalty set out at the foot thereof and substituting the following penalty:
"Penalty: $500.".
(3) The amendment made by sub-section (2) does not apply in relation to offences committed before the commencement of this sub-section.

18. After section 98a of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Remote area allowance
"98aa. (1) In this section, 'remote area' means those parts of Australia referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.
"(2) Subject to sub-section (3), a person who—
     (a) is in receipt of a service pension under section 84, 85 or 85aa; and
     (b) is physically present in, and whose usual place of residence is situated in, the remote area,
is eligible to receive an allowance, to be known as remote area allowance, under this section.
"(3) A person to whom sub-section 87 (1b) or (1c) applies is not eligible to receive a remote area allowance.
"(4) For the purposes of this section, where a person whose usual place of residence is situated in the remote area is absent from the remote area for a period not exceeding 8 weeks, the person shall be taken to be physically present in the remote area during that period.

"(5) Sub-section (4) does not apply to a person in respect of any period during which the person is outside Australia.
"(6) Subject to sub-sections (7) and (8), the rate of a remote area allowance is—
     (a) in the case of a person who—
          (i) is not a married person; or
          (ii) is a married person whose spouse is not eligible to receive an allowance under this section, an allowance under Part IIa of the Social Security Act 1947 or an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act 1948 the rate of which is determined having regard to residence in the remote area,
      $14 per fortnight; or
     (b) in any