Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment and Pensioner Concession Card) Act 2017 (46 of 2017)

Schedule 2   Pensioner concession card

Part 1   Social security amendments

Social Security Act 1991

1   After subsection 1061ZA(1A)

Insert:

(1B) Subject to subsection (3), a person is qualified for a pensioner concession card on a day if:

(a) immediately before 1 January 2017, the person was receiving a social security pension; and

(b) the Secretary is satisfied that the rate of that pension was nil on 1 January 2017 because of the operation of the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Act 2015; and

(c) the person is not otherwise qualified for a pensioner concession card on that day.