Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458:section:79
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 79
Character Range: 284764–285523

79  Rate reduction determination
 (1) If the Secretary is satisfied that the rate at which a social security payment is being, or has been, paid is more than the rate provided for by the social security law, the Secretary is to:
 (a) determine that the rate is to be reduced to the rate provided for by the social security law; and
 (b) specify the last‑mentioned rate in the determination.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not authorise the Secretary to make a determination if:
 (a) the rate at which a social security payment is payable to a person is reduced by the operation of another provision of the social security law; and
 (b) the determination would take effect at or after the time at which the reduction referred to in paragraph (a) would take effect.