Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and other 2001 Budget Measures) Act 2003 (Incorporating amendments up to Act No. 122 of 2003) (35 of 2003)

Schedule 4   Closure of access to mature age allowance and partner allowance

Part 1   Closure of access to mature age allowance

Social Security Act 1991

2   After section 660YAA

Insert:

660YAB Time limits on claims for mature age allowance

(1) In spite of any other provisions of this Act or of the Administration Act, a person is not to be granted a mature age allowance under this Part unless:

(a) the person's claim for the allowance:

(i) was lodged before 1 July 2003; or

(ii) is taken, because of the operation of section 12, 13 or 15 of the Administration Act, to have been made before 1 July 2003; and

(b) the person was qualified for the allowance:

(i) in a case to which subparagraph (a)(i) applies - on the date of lodgment of the claim; and

(ii) in a case to which subparagraph (a)(ii) applies - on the date the person is taken to have made the claim.

(2) Subsection (1) does not imply that a person making a claim in the circumstances referred to in subsection 35(1) of the Administration Act before 1 July 2003 will be granted a mature age allowance if the date from which the allowance would be payable to that person under subsection 37(7) of that Act would be 1 July 2003 or a later date.

(3) Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 85 of the Administration Act.