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of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (3) "reasonably" after "cannot".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Payment of pension etc. during imprisonment etc.
52. Section 167 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (4) "subsections (2) and (3)" and substituting "subsections (1) and (2) of this section".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Cancellation, suspension or variation of pension etc.
53. Section 168 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (4) (d) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(d) in any other case—on the day on which the determination was made or on such later day or earlier day (not being a day more than 3 months before the determination was made) as is specified in the determination.".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Pension etc. to cease to be payable in certain cases
54. Section 169 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
"(5) Where:

    (a) a person who is in receipt of a prescribed pension is required by a notice under subsection 163 (1) to notify an increase in the income of the person;
    (b) the person fails to notify the Department of that increase in accordance with the notice; and
    (c) the person has an earnings credit for the purposes of section 12a; the pension shall be reduced, or ceases to be payable, as the case requires, from the first pension pay day after the earnings credit is reduced to nil".
Commencement 1 November 1987

Secretary may impose certain requirements
55. Section 170 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting paragraph (2) (c) and substituting the following paragraph:
     "(c) undertake:
          (i) a course of vocational training; or
             (ii) another course which the person could reasonably undertake and to which the person has been referred by the Commonwealth Employment Service;";
    (b) by omitting from subsection (2) "the Secretary may refuse to grant or pay the pension to the person, or suspend or cancel the pension, as the case may be," and substituting "the pension shall not be granted to the person, or shall cease to be payable to the person, as the case may be,"; and
    (c) by adding at the end the following subsections:
    "(3) The Secretary may request a person who is in receipt of a job search allowance to attend an office of the Commonwealth Employment Service and, if the person fails to attend that office in accordance with the request and does not have a reasonable excuse for failing to attend, the job search allowance ceases to be payable to the person.
    "(4) Where a person is complying with a requirement made of the person under this section, the person