Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061zm:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061ZM (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1428756–1431450

1061ZM  Qualification for health care card: employment‑affected person
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), if:
 (a) either:
 (i) a person who is an employment‑affected person or the partner of such a person commences employment; or
 (ii) there is an increase in the ordinary income from employment of a person who is an employment‑affected person or the partner of such a person; and
 (b) because either:
 (i) the person or the partner commences employment; or
 (ii) there is an increase in the ordinary income of the person or the partner from employment;
  the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person; and
 (c) the person has been a qualified recipient for a continuous period of 52 weeks immediately before so ceasing;
the person is qualified for a health care card for the period of 26 weeks starting on the day on which the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person.
 (1A) If the person is qualified for a health care card under section 1061ZMA until a day (the particular day), subsection (1) has effect as if the reference to 26 weeks starting on the day on which the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person were a reference to 26 weeks starting on the particular day.
 (1B) If the person:
 (a) was an employment‑affected person because of receiving pension PP (single); and
 (b) is qualified for a pensioner concession card under section 1061ZEA until a day (the particular day);
subsection (1) has effect as if the reference to the period of 26 weeks starting on the day on which the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person were a reference to the period starting on the particular day and ending 26 weeks after the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person.
 (1BA) If the person:
 (a) was an employment‑affected person because of receiving youth allowance or jobseeker payment; and
 (b) was, on the day on which the person ceased to be an employment‑affected person, the principal carer of at least one child; and
 (c) is qualified for a pensioner concession card under section 1061ZEA until a day (the particular day);
subsection (1) has effect as if the reference to the period of 26 weeks starting on the day on which the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person were a reference to the period starting on the particular day and ending 26 weeks after the person ceases to be an employment‑affected person.
Note: For principal carer see subsections 5(15) to (24).
 (1C) If the person:
 (a) is qualified for a health care card under section 1061ZMA until a particular day; and
 (b) has, immediately before the commencement or increase mentioned in subsection (1), been a qualified recipient because of receiving jobseeker payment or