Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 368716–371342

5                            On or after 1 January 1957          67 years

New apprentice
 (7) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine requirements for the purposes of the definition of new apprentice in subsection (1).

Psychiatric confinement
 (8) Subject to subsection (9), psychiatric confinement in relation to a person includes confinement in:
 (a) a psychiatric section of a hospital; and
 (b) any other place where persons with psychiatric disabilities are, from time to time, confined.
 (9) The confinement of a person in a psychiatric institution during a period when the person is undertaking a course of rehabilitation is not to be taken to be psychiatric confinement.

Served the waiting period
 (10) If a person is subject to an ordinary waiting period for a social security benefit or social security pension, the person is to be taken to have served the waiting period if, and only if:
 (a) the waiting period has ended; and
 (b) the person was, throughout the waiting period, qualified for the social security benefit.
Note: For ordinary waiting period see subsection (1).
 (10A) If a person is subject to a liquid assets test waiting period for a social security benefit, the person is to be taken to have served the waiting period if, and only if:
 (a) the waiting period has ended; and
 (b) the person was, apart from the liquid assets test provision concerned, qualified for the benefit throughout so much of the waiting period as occurs after the claim for the benefit was made.
 (10B) For the purposes of subsection (10A), the liquid assets test provisions are sections 549A to 549C, 575A to 575C and 598.
 (10C) For the purposes of this Act:
full year course means:
 (a) a course of education that starts:
 (i) on 1 January; or
 (ii) after 1 January and before 1 April; or
 (iii) on 1 July; or
 (iv) after 1 July and before 1 August;
  and lasts for more than 30 weeks (including vacations); or
 (b) an articulated short course sequence whose first course starts:
 (i) on 1 January; or
 (ii) after 1 January and before 1 April; or
 (iii) on 1 July; or
 (iv) after 1 July and before 1 August;
  and the length of whose courses (including vacations) add up to more than 30 weeks.
 (10D) For the purposes of this Act:
late starting course means:
 (a) a course of education that starts:
 (i) on 1 April; or
 (ii) after 1 April and before 1 July; or
 (iii) after 31 July;
  and lasts for more than 30 weeks (including vacations); or
 (b) an articulated short course sequence whose first course starts:
 (i) on 1 April; or
 (ii) after 1 April and before 1 July; or
 (iii) after 31 July;
  and