Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Act 2019 (73 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Amendments

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

7   After subsection 28B(1)

Insert:

(1A) This subsection applies to an individual if:

(a) the claim is for payments under the ABSTUDY scheme; and

(b) the individual is seeking the payments to be paid on the basis of the individual:

(i) undertaking full-time study at a secondary school (within the meaning of the Student Assistance Act 1973); and

(ii) being, in accordance with the ABSTUDY scheme, a student approved to live away from home; and

(iii) boarding away from home for the purposes of attending the school.

Note: For undertaking full-time study , see subsection 3(1) of the Family Assistance Act.