Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00043:clause:1_45
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45  Application of amendments
(1) The amendments made by this Part apply in relation to:
 (a) payment of youth allowance claimed on or after the day on which the amendments commence; and
 (b) payment of youth allowance on or after 1 July 2010 in respect of existing youth allowance recipients.
(2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), if, during the transition period, an existing youth allowance recipient (being an early school leaver) enters into a Youth Allowance Employment Pathway Plan complying with the requirements of section 544DA, the amendments made by this Part apply to the payment of youth allowance to the existing youth allowance recipient from the time the plan is entered into.
(3) In this item:
existing youth allowance recipient means a person in receipt of youth allowance as a result of a claim for youth allowance made before the day on which the amendments made by this Part commence.
transition period means the period beginning on 1 January 2010 and ending on 30 June 2010.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 28 May 2009
Senate on 16 June 2009]
(103/09)