Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4
Character Range: 1894179–1896329

4                               Partnered (partner in gaol)             $18.20           $7.30

Note: For member of a couple, partnered, illness separated couple and partnered (partner in gaol) see section 4.

Meaning of remote area allowance
 1067L‑F3 In Table F, remote area allowance means an amount added to a person's austudy payment by way of remote area allowance.

In remote area
 1067L‑F4 For the purposes of Table F, a person is in the remote area if:
 (a) the person's usual place of residence is in the remote area; and
 (b) the person is physically present in the remote area.

Special rule if partner has an FTB or regular care child but is not receiving a pension
 1067L‑F6 If:
 (a) an additional allowance is to be included in the rate of remote area allowance for a person who is a member of a couple; and
 (b) the person's partner is not receiving a social security pension or social security benefit; and
 (c) the person's partner has an FTB child or a regular care child;
the child is taken, for the purposes of this Module, to be an FTB child, or a regular care child, (as the case requires) of the person.

Special rule if partner has an FTB or regular care child but is not receiving additional allowance for the child
 1067L‑F7 If:
 (a) an additional allowance is to be included in the rate of remote area allowance for a person who is a member of a couple; and
 (b) the person's partner has an FTB child or a regular care child; and
 (c) the person's partner is not receiving additional allowance for the child;
the child is taken, for the purposes of this Module, to be an FTB child, or a regular care child, (as the case requires) of the person.

Special rule dealing with the death of an FTB or regular care child
 1067L‑F9 If an FTB child, or a regular care child, of a person dies, this Module has effect, for a period of 14 weeks after the death of the child, as if the child had not died.
Note: This point does not prevent this Module having the effect it would have had if the child would otherwise have ceased to be an FTB child, or a regular care child, during that 14 weeks.

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