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in the Principal Act as the Department of Community Services and Health) is to cease to be an assistance agency for the purposes of the Principal Act.

(2) The object of this Part is to make the necessary amendments to the Principal Act.

Interpretation

56. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of the definition of "assistance agency";

(b) by omitting paragraph (x) of the definition of "family identity data";

(c) by omitting paragraph (a) of the definition of "personal assistance".

Steps in data matching cycle

57. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph 14(a) of step 5 and substituting:

"(a) income data of the person given to it by assistance agencies; and".

Continuation of rights etc.

58. Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Principal Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Part, continue to apply to the Department of Housing and Regional Development in relation to information received by it under a step of a data matching cycle, as if it were still an assistance agency under the Act.

PART 5—AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1993

Principal Act

59. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Social Security (Budget and Other Measures) Legislation Amendment Act 19934.