Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:clause:5_5:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 5 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 2007112–2009209

and
 (c) the person's partner is a person to whom clause 63 of Schedule 1A to the Social Security Act applies;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension rate is not to fall below one‑half of the person's floor amount or one‑half of the amount that would be the person's partner's floor amount if subsection (1) or (3) applied to the partner, whichever is the greater.
 (10) Subject to subclause (11), if:
 (a) a person is receiving a pension; and
 (b) neither subclause (1) nor (3) applies to the person; and
 (c) the person has become or becomes a member of a couple; and
 (d) the person's partner is receiving a social security payment under the Social Security Act and is a person to whom clause 63 of Schedule 1A to the Social Security Act applies;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension rate is not to fall below one‑half of the amount that would be the person's partner's floor amount if subclause (1) or (3) applied to the partner.
 (11) Despite anything in the preceding provisions of this clause, the rate of rent assistance payable to a person to whom this clause applies is reduced by the sum of any indexation or adjustment increases occurring after the commencement of this clause to the person's pension rate.
 (12) Subject to subclause (6), if subclause (1) or (3) ceases to apply to a person because of subclause (5), it does not again apply to the person.
 (13) Subclause (7) ceases to apply to the partner of a person to whom subclause (1) or (3) applies if the pension rate that is applicable to the partner because of subclause (7) is equal to or less than the rate that would be the partner's pension rate if subclause (7) did not apply to the partner.
 (14) If subclause (7) ceases to apply to the partner of a person to whom subclause (1) or (3) applies, subclause (7) does not again apply to the partner.
 (16) In this clause:
floor amount has the meaning given by subsection (4).
indexation or adjustment increase means an increase resulting from the operation of Division 18 of Part IIIB.