Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:23:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23 (pt 1/23)
Character Range: 308782–311748

23  Dictionary
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
1947 Act means the Social Security Act 1947.
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child means a child who is a descendant of:
 (a) an Indigenous inhabitant of Australia; or
 (b) an Indigenous inhabitant of the Torres Strait Islands.
Aboriginal study assistance scheme means:
 (a) the ABSTUDY Scheme; or
 (b) the Aboriginal Overseas Study Assistance Scheme; or
 (c) a scheme prescribed for the purposes of this definition.
ABSTUDY means the ABSTUDY scheme to the extent that it provides means‑test allowances.
ABSTUDY Schooling scheme means the ABSTUDY Schooling part of the ABSTUDY scheme.
ABSTUDY Tertiary scheme means the ABSTUDY Tertiary part of the ABSTUDY scheme.
accelerator program course has the same meaning as in the Higher Education Support Act 2003.
accommodation bond: see subsection 11(1).
accommodation bond balance: see subsection 11(1).
accommodation charge: see subsection 11(1).
account, in relation to a financial institution, means an account maintained by a person with the institution to which is accredited money received on deposit by the institution from that person.
accumulated SSL debt has the meaning given by section 1061ZVEC.
ACNC type of entity means an entity that meets the description of a type of entity in column 1 of the table in subsection 25‑5(5) of the Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Commission Act 2012.
Administration Act means the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.
adopted child: see subsection 5(1).
Adult Disability Assessment Tool: see subsection 38C(3).
advance payment qualifying amount, for a person, means:
 (a) if the person is receiving a social security pension worked out under Pension Rate Calculator A—the sum of the following amounts:
 (i) the person's maximum basic rate;
 (ii) the amount (if any) by which the person's pension supplement amount exceeds the person's minimum pension supplement amount; or
 (b) otherwise—the result of paragraph (a) worked out as if the person were receiving a social security pension worked out under Pension Rate Calculator A.
advance qualification day means:
 (a) for a person qualifying for a clean energy advance because of a determination made under subsection 914(1) or 914A(1)—the day that determination is made; or
 (b) for a person qualifying for a clean energy advance because of a determination made under subsection 914(2)—the day specified in that determination because of subsection 914(3); or
 (c) for a person qualifying for a clean energy advance because of a determination made under subsection 914A(2) or (3)—the day specified in that determination because of subsection 914A(4).
Note: The day specified in the determination because of subsection 914(3) or 914A(4) is the first day during the clean energy advance period for which the person satisfies the qualification requirements, disregarding any short temporary absence from Australia.
adversely affected, in