Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04145:body:0:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04145
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 17–2954

Social Security (Rewrite) Transition Act 1991

 No. 70 of 1991

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Section
   1.             Short title
   2.             Commencement

PART 2—REPEAL OF THE 1947 ACT

  3. Repeal of the 1947 Act

PART 3—SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONALS

      4.               Insertion of schedule of savings and transitional provisions into the Social Security Act 1991
  5.               Other amendments of the Social Security Act 1991 of a transitional nature

PART 4—CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

  6. Consequential amendments of other Acts

SCHEDULE 1

NEW SCHEDULE 1a TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991

SCHEDULE 2

OTHER AMENDMENTS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991
OF A TRANSITIONAL NATURE

SCHEDULE 3

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

                 Social Security (Rewrite) Transition Act 1991

 No. 70 of 1991

An Act to repeal the Social Security Act 1947 and to
make consequential, savings and transitional provisions for
the transition to the Social Security Act 1991, and
for related purposes

[Assented to 25 June 1991]
  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Social Security (Rewrite) Transition Act 1991.

Commencement

2. This Act commences immediately after the Social Security Act 1991 commences.

PART 2—REPEAL OF THE 1947 ACT

Repeal of the 1947 Act

  3. The Social Security Act 1947 is repealed.

PART 3—SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONALS

Insertion of schedule of savings and transitional provisions into the Social Security Act 1991

4. After Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1991, the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Act is inserted.

Other amendments of the Social Security Act 1991 of a transitional nature

5. The Social Security Act 1991 is amended as set out in Schedule 2.

PART 4—CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

Consequential amendments of other Acts

6. The Acts specified in Schedule 3 are amended as set out in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE 1 Section 4

NEW SCHEDULE 1a TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991

SCHEDULE 1a

SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

PART 1—GENERAL

Correspondence of pensions, benefits and allowances

1. (1) For the purposes of this Schedule, a pension, benefit or allowance under this Act and a pension, benefit or allowance under the 1947 Act that have the same name correspond to each other.

SCHEDULE 1—continued

  (2) For the purposes of this Schedule:

    (a)     a wife's pension under the 1947 Act and a wife pension under this Act correspond to each other; and

    (b)     a carer's pension under the 1947 Act and a carer pension under this Act correspond to each other; and

    (c)     a sole parent's pension under the 1947 Act and a sole parent pension under this Act correspond to each other; and

    (d)     a widowed person's allowance under the 1947 Act and a widowed person allowance under this