Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:549cb
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 549CB
Character Range: 819040–821386

549CB  Duration of ordinary waiting period
 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (4), if a person is subject to an ordinary waiting period, the ordinary waiting period is the period of 7 days that starts on the person's start day (worked out disregarding clauses 4A and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Administration Act).
 (2) Subject to subsection (4), if:
 (a) a person is subject to an ordinary waiting period; and
 (b) apart from this subsection, the ordinary waiting period would be the period of 7 days that starts on the person's start day (worked out disregarding clauses 4A and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Administration Act); and
 (c) that start day falls within one or more of the following periods (each of which is an exclusion period) that the person is subject to:
 (i) a liquid assets test waiting period;
 (ii) a newly arrived resident's waiting period;
 (iii) a seasonal work preclusion period;
 (iv) a lump sum preclusion period under Part 3.14;
 (v) an income maintenance period, where the person's rate of youth allowance on that start day would be nil;
then the ordinary waiting period is the period of 7 days that starts on the first day after all the exclusion periods have ended.
 (3) If:
 (a) subparagraph (2)(c)(v) applies to a person; and
 (b) on a day in that income maintenance period, the person's rate of youth allowance would be greater than nil if youth allowance were payable to the person on that day;
then, for the purposes of subsection (2), that income maintenance period is taken to have ended at the end of the day before that day.
 (4) If:
 (a) a person qualifies for a social security payment (other than youth allowance); and
 (b) because the person is subject to an ordinary waiting period relating to that payment, that payment is not payable to the person for a period starting on a particular day (the initial day); and
 (c) during that period the person:
 (i) ceases to be qualified for that payment; and
 (ii) claims youth allowance and is qualified for youth allowance, where neither subparagraph 540(1)(a)(i) (about full‑time study) nor section 540AA (about new apprentices) applies;
the person's ordinary waiting period relating to that youth allowance is the period of 7 days that starts on the initial day.
Note: Ordinary waiting periods apply to parenting payment, youth allowance and jobseeker payment.