Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997

No. 21, 1997

An Act to amend the Farm Household Support Act 1992

Contents

1 Short title..................................1

2 Commencement..............................1

3 Schedule(s).................................2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Farm Household Support Act 1992 3

Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997

No. 21, 1997

An Act to amend the Farm Household Support Act 1992

[Assented to 7 April 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Farm Household Support Amendment Act 1997.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the 28th day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Farm Household Support Act 1992

1  After Part 1

Insert:

Part 1A—Termination of farm household support

6A  Termination of farm household support

 (1) Farm household support is not payable to a person in respect of a day (the day in question) unless farm household support is payable to the person in respect of:

 (a) the cutoff day; and

 (b) each day between the cutoff day and the day in question.

For this purpose, cutoff day means the day on which this section commenced.

Example 1: Farm household support was not payable to a person in respect of the cutoff day. The person can never again become entitled to be paid farm household support for any period after the cutoff day.

Example 2: Farm household support was payable to a person for a continuous period that started before the cutoff day and ended 3 months after the cutoff day. The person can never again become entitled to be paid farm household support for any period later than 3 months after the cutoff day.

 (2) This section has effect despite anything else in this Act.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 4 December 1996
Senate on 24 February 1997]

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