2010‑2011

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Bill 2011

No.      , 2011

(Education, Employment and Workplace Relations)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991, and for related purposes

Contents

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

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

3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Parenting payment transitional arrangement                         3

Social Security Act 1991                                                                                            3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Social Security Act 1991, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Act 2011.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on 1 July 2011.

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                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Social Security Act 1991

1  After paragraph 500D(3)(c)

Insert:

                    (ca)  the person was the principal carer of the child immediately before 1 July 2011; and

2  Application

Paragraph 500D(3)(ca) of the Social Security Act 1991 applies for the purpose of determining whether a person is a PP child of another person on or after 1 July 2011.