Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Act 2020 (17 of 2020)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Simplifying income reporting

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

72   Application and saving provisions - social security legislation

(1) The amendments made by items 4, 6 to 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 27, 30, 34, 35, 37 (to the extent that it substitutes sections 1073A, 1073B and 1073BA of the Social Security Act 1991) and 38 to 42 apply in relation to an amount of employment income paid to or for the benefit of a person:

(a) on or after the commencement of this item; and

(b) if the person has a transitional instalment period - after the beginning of that period and before this item commences.

(2) Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to an amount of employment income to the extent that the amount:

(a) was earnt or derived before the commencement of this item; and

(b) has been taken into account in working out the person's rate of social security pension or social security benefit.

(3) Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to a lump sum amount paid to a person, or a partner of a person, after the beginning of a transitional instalment period of the person and before this item commences, where the lump sum amount is covered by point 1067G-H23A, 1067G-H23B, 1067L-D20, 1067L-D21, 1068-G7B or 1068-G7C of the Social Security Act 1991.

(4) Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to a lump sum amount of employment income in respect of which paragraphs 1073A(1)(a) and (b) of the Social Security Act 1991 are satisfied before the commencement of this item. Section 1073A of that Act, as in force immediately before that commencement, continues to apply in relation to that amount on and after that commencement.

(5) The amendments made by items 13, 14, 18, 19, 23 and 24 apply in relation to a lump sum amount that is paid on or after the commencement of this item.

(6) Section 1073BB of the Social Security Act 1991, as substituted by this Part, applies in relation to an amount of employment income referred to in paragraph 1073BB(1)(b) of that Act that is earnt or derived on or after the commencement of this item, whether:

(a) the instalment period referred to in that paragraph begins before, on or after that commencement; or

(b) the scheme was entered into, or commenced to be carried out, before, on or after that commencement.

(7) Paragraph 1073BD(c) of the Social Security Act 1991, as substituted by this Part, applies in relation to an amount of employment income that, on or after the commencement of this item, a person is taken to receive, whether the instalment period referred to in that paragraph begins before, on or after that commencement.

(8) The amendments of sections 96, 97 and 97B of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 made by this Part apply in relation to an amount of employment income paid on or after the commencement of this item.

(9) Sections 96, 97 and 97B of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation toincome, or increased income, earned by a person before that commencement from the person's employment.

(10) The amendments of sections 110 and 118 of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 made by this Part apply in relation to:

(a) an instalment period of a person that begins on or after the commencement of this item; and

(b) a transitional instalment period of a person.

(11) In this item:

transitional instalment period , of a person, means an instalment period that begins before the day on which this item commences and includes that day.