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person immediately before 1 July 1987, the rate that was so payable; and
    (e) the sum of:
        (i) the rate of pension that was payable to the person immediately before 1 July 1987; and
        (ii) the rate of the allowance by way of rent assistance that was payable to the person at that time or, if the rate of the allowance by way of rent assistance that would be payable to the person if that section were still in operation is lower, that lower rate.
"(3) An allowance under subsection (2) ceases to be payable to a person when the rate referred to in paragraph (2) (d) becomes equal to, or exceeds, the sum of the rates referred to in paragraph (2) (e).".
Commencement: 1 July 1987

(2) Section 63 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
"(4) This Act applies to a person to whom an agreement set out in a Schedule on 1 October 1987 applies as if the amendments made by section 29 of the Social Security and Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Act 1987 had not been made.".
Commencement: 1 October 1987

Prescribed persons
27. (1) Section 69 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) ", 38 (4) (b)".
Commencement: 24 December 1987

(2) Section 69 of the Principal. Act is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsections:

"(3a) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where:
    (a) on or after 1 January 1988, the annual rate of income of a person increases so that it exceeds the prescribed rate of income applicable to the person;
    (b) immediately before that increase, the annual rate of the person's income did not exceed that prescribed rate of income; and
    (c) the amount of that excess is not more than 25% of that prescribed rate of income;
the person is not, while the amount of that excess continues to be not more than 25% of that prescribed rate of income, a prescribed person for the purposes of section 66 or 67 at any time during the period of 13 weeks commencing on the first pension pay day after that increase occurred.
"(3b) Where:
    (a) subsection (3a) applies to a person; and
    (b) the annual rate of income of the person increases so that it exceeds by more than 25% the prescribed rate of income applicable to the person;
the person becomes a prescribed person for the purposes of sections 66 and 67 and subsection (3a) does not apply to the person on a further occasion unless the annual rate of income of the person falls below that prescribed rate of income.".
Commencement: 1 January 1988

28. Part IX of