Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:598:p4
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Provision Reference: s 598 (pt 4/4)
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payment received has changed over the period and whether the period or any part of it occurred before or after the commencement of this subsection).
Note 1: For income support payment see subsection 23(1).
Note 2: For the determination of the continuous period in respect of which a person received income support payments see section 38B.
 (8) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who:
 (a) is undertaking an activity specified in an instrument made under subsection (8A); and
 (b) has been exempted from the application of subsection (1) by the Secretary.
 (8A) The Secretary may, by legislative instrument, specify activities for the purpose of paragraph (8)(a).
 (8B) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if:
 (a) the person makes a claim for jobseeker payment on or after the commencement of this subsection; and
 (b) the person makes the claim after the death of the person's partner on or after the commencement of this subsection; and
 (c) if the person is a man or a woman who was not pregnant when her partner died—the person makes the claim in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; and
 (d) if the person is a woman who was pregnant when her partner died—the person makes the claim:
 (i) in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; or
 (ii) in the period starting on the day of the death of the partner and ending when the child is born or the woman otherwise stops being pregnant;
  whichever ends later.
 (9) A reference in this section to the day on which a person ceased work (whether the person ceases work permanently, temporarily or by reason of being on unpaid leave) is a reference:
 (a) except where the person is on paid leave immediately after last performing work—to the day on which the person last performed work before so ceasing; and
 (b) if the person is on paid leave—to the last day on which the person is on that paid leave.