Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00380:clause:1_6:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00380
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 6 (pt 2/9)
Character Range: 135474–138083

couple and the person's partner is receiving a social security pension, a service pension or a rehabilitation allowance, the person's ordinary income is taken to be one half of the sum of:
 (a) the amount that would be the person's ordinary income if he or she were not a member of a couple; and
 (b) the amount that would be the ordinary income of the person's partner if the partner were not a member of a couple.

Termination payments
 1067L‑D3 Subject to points 1067L‑D4 to 1067L‑D16 (inclusive), if:
 (a) a person's employment has been terminated; and
 (b) as a result the person is entitled to a lump sum payment from the person's former employer;
the person is taken to have received the lump sum payment on the day on which the person's employment was terminated.

Rolling over lump sum leave payments
 1067L‑D4 If:
 (a) a person's employment has been terminated; and
 (b) as a result the person is entitled to a lump sum leave payment from the person's former employer; and
 (c) the person rolls over the lump sum leave payment into an approved deposit fund, a superannuation fund or a deferred annuity;
the lump sum leave payment is to be disregarded in working out the ordinary income of the person for the purposes of this Module.

Certain leave payments taken to be ordinary income—employment continuing
 1067L‑D5 If:
 (a) a person is employed; and
 (b) the person is on leave for a period; and
 (c) the person is or was entitled to receive a leave payment (whether as a lump sum payment, as a payment that is one of a series of regular payments or otherwise) in respect of a part or all of a leave period;
the person is taken to have received ordinary income for a period (the income maintenance period) equal to the leave period to which the leave payment entitlement relates.

Certain leave payments taken to be ordinary income—employment terminated
 1067L‑D6 If:
 (a) a person's employment has been terminated; and
 (b) the person receives a leave payment (whether as a lump sum payment, as a payment that is one of a series of regular payments or otherwise);
the person is taken to have received ordinary income for a period (the income maintenance period) equal to the leave period to which the payment relates.

More than one leave payment on a day
 1067L‑D7 If:
 (a) the person is covered by point 1067L‑D6; and
 (b) the person receives more than one leave payment on a day;
the income maintenance period is worked out by adding the leave periods to which the payments relate.

Start of income maintenance period—employment continuing
 1067L‑D8 If the person is covered by point 1067L‑D5,