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

9   After subsection 61AA(4)

Insert:

(4A) If:

(a) an individual is subject to a newly arrived resident's waiting period because of paragraph (2)(a) or (b); and

(b) the individual has previously held one or more visas covered by paragraph 21(1B)(a) that are also of a kind determined under subsection (5B) of this section;

the waiting period:

(c) starts on the day on which the individual became the holder of the first of those visas; and

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