Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Act 2023 (100 of 2023)

Schedule 2   Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme

Part 1   Amendments

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

12   After subsection 61AA(5)

Insert:

(5A) If an individual is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period because of paragraph (2)(c), the waiting period:

(a) starts on the day on which the individual first became the holder of a visa covered by paragraph 21(1B)(a) that is also of a kind determined under subsection (5B) of this section; and

(b) ends when the individual has been in Australia for a period of, or periods totalling, 52 weeks after that day.

(5B) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine kinds of visas for the purposes of paragraphs (4A)(b) and (5A)(a).