Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020

PART 2 - JOBKEEPER PAYMENT  

Division 5 - Administration  

SECTION 17   WHEN PAYMENT CONSTITUTES NOTICE  

17(1)    
Subsection (2) applies if:

(a)    

an entity has notified the Commissioner in the approved form that the entity elects to participate in the jobkeeper scheme (as referred to in paragraph 6(1)(e) , 11(1)(e) or 12A(1)(f) ); and

(b)    

the entity has given the Commissioner, in the approved form, details of one or more individuals for fortnights ending in a calendar month (as referred to in paragraph 6(1)(f) , 11(1)(f) or 12A(1)(g) ); and

(c)    the Commissioner has paid jobkeeper payments to the entity for those fortnights; and

(d)    

the sum of the amounts paid by the Commissioner is consistent with the Commissioner being satisfied that the entity is entitled to a jobkeeper payment for each individual covered by paragraph (b) of this subsection for each of the fortnights referred to in that paragraph at the rate notified to the Commissioner for the individual in the approved form (as referred to in paragraph 6(1)(fa) , 11(1)(fa) or 12A(1)(ga) ).

17(2)    

The Commissioner is taken to have given the entity notice, on the day the last jobkeeper payment covered by paragraph (1)(c) of this section is paid, that the Commissioner is satisfied the entity is entitled to a jobkeeper payment for each individual covered by paragraph (1)(b) of this section for each of the fortnights referred to in paragraph (1)(b) at the rate notified to the Commissioner for the individual in the approved form (as referred to in paragraph 6(1)(fa) , 11(1)(fa) or 12A(1)(ga) ).

17(3)    
However, this section does not apply in relation to the calendar month in which the first 2 jobkeeper fortnights end.