Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01295:reg:4:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01295
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 16/35)
Character Range: 45553–48184

the clean energy underlying payment, worked out:
 (i) for the first day of the person's clean energy advance period; and
 (ii) for someone in circumstances the same as the person's on the clean energy advance eligibility day; and
 (b) rounding the result of paragraph (a) up or down to the nearest multiple of 10 cents (rounding up if that result is not a multiple of 10 cents but is a multiple of 5 cents); and
 (c) adding 20 cents to the result of paragraph (b); and
 (d) dividing the result of paragraph (c) by 14.

Number of advance days
 3A.4.1 The person's number of advance days is the number of days in the person's clean energy advance period that are on or after:
 (a) if the person is eligible for the clean energy advance before 1 July 2012—1 July 2012; or
 (b) otherwise—the advance eligibility day.

Top‑up payments of clean energy advance
 3A.5.1 If:
 (a) the Commonwealth pays a clean energy advance (the original payment) to a person; and
 (b) the person's circumstances change on a day (the change day) and the person satisfies any top‑up qualifying condition in relation to that change of circumstances as set out in paragraph 3A.5.2; and
 (c) either
 (i) the change of circumstances means that a higher clean energy advance daily rate would be used to calculate the original payment if the person's clean energy advance eligibility day were the change day; or
 (ii) except for the provisions of a multiple entitlement exclusion the person would be eligible for a clean energy bonus under the Act, another Act or a Commonwealth scheme;
the person is eligible for a top‑up payment calculated in accordance with paragraphs 3A.5.4 – 3A.5.7.
 3A.5.2 For the purposes of paragraph 3A.5.1 a person satisfies a top‑up qualifying condition if:
 (a) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person receives an education allowance at a higher rate in relation to the change day and the change of circumstances occurs before 1 January 2014; or
 (b) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person commences to receive, before 20 March 2013:
 (i) service pension; or
 (ii) war widow(er) pension; or
 (iii) a payment listed in subsection 914(4) of the Social Security Act 1991; or
 (iv) MRCA wholly dependent partner payment; or
 (c) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person no longer receives an education allowance but receives, before 1 January 2014:
 (i) a payment listed in subsection 914A(5) of the Social Security Act 1991; or
 (ii) ABSTUDY; or
 (iii) a MRCAETS