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Farm Household Support Act 2014
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C2022C00163 (C23)
08 April 2022
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Object of this Act
4 Simplified outline of this Act
5 Definitions
6 Meanings of specified 10 year period and meets the 4 years or less requirement
6A Norfolk Island
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Part 2—Farm household allowance
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
7 Simplified outline of this Part
Division 2—Basic qualifications of farmers and their partners for farm household allowance
8 Qualification of farmers for farm household allowance
9 Qualification of farmers’ partners for farm household allowance
10 Grace period for farmers’ partners
11 Persons with temporary incapacity exemption may be taken to meet the labour requirement
12 Persons not qualified if Secretary determines that they do not effectively control farm enterprises
13 Determination of matters relating to qualification for farm household allowance
Division 3—Financial improvement agreements
14 Requirement to enter financial improvement agreement
15 Terms of financial improvement agreement
16 Approval of requirements
17 Variation, cancellation and review
18 Notification of circumstances preventing or affecting compliance
Division 4—The activity test
19 The activity test
20 Training and advice to be provided by appropriately qualified person
21 Determining whether work is unsuitable
Division 5—Exemptions from the activity test
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Subdivision A—General exemptions determined by the Secretary
22 Determination of exemption by Secretary
23 Essential farm activities
24 Domestic violence etc.
25 People with disabled children
26 Inclusion in prescribed class
27 Exemption where requirement for person to satisfy the activity test would be unreasonable
28 Special circumstances
Subdivision B—Automatic general exemptions
29 Members of Defence Reserves
30 Prenatal and postnatal exemption
Subdivision C—People temporarily incapacitated
31 Temporarily incapacitated person exempt from the activity test
32 Time limit for exemption—end of person’s maximum exemption period
Division 6—Payability
Subdivision A—Situations where allowance not payable (assets test)
33 Assets value limit
35 Meaning of farm assets and non farm assets
35A Meaning of water entitlement right
36 Meaning of value of assets
36A Valuing a water entitlement right
Subdivision B—Situations where allowance not payable (general)
37 Farm household allowance not payable if allowance rate nil
38 Multiple entitlement exclusion
Subdivision C—Situations where allowance not payable (waiting period)
39 Waiting period
42 Newly arrived resident’s waiting period
43 Duration of newly arrived resident’s waiting period
Subdivision D—Other situations where farm household allowance not payable
48 Seasonal workers
Division 7—Overseas portability
49 Division does not affect need for qualification
50 Persons to whom Division applies
51 Farm household allowance portable
52 Amounts added to rate
53 Meaning of allowable absence and portability period
54 Secretary may extend the portability period
Division 8—Rate of farm household allowance
Subdivision A—Persons who have turned 22
55 How to work out the rate of a person’s farm household allowance
56 Maximum basic rate
57 Pension supplement does not apply
58 Energy supplement
59 Pharmaceutical allowance
59A Income reduction
Subdivision B—Persons who have not turned 22
60 How to work out the rate of a person’s farm household allowance
61 Maximum basic rate
62 Energy supplement
63 Pharmaceutical allowance
64 Youth disability supplement does not apply
65 Student income bank does not apply
65A Income reduction
Subdivision C—Income test
66 Deemed income from financial assets
67 Allowable deductions from ordinary income
Division 9—Compliance with obligations in relation to farm household allowance
71 Qualification failures
72 Consequences of qualification failures
73 Conduct failures
74 Consequences of conduct failures
75 Revoking a determination relating to a conduct failure
76 Reasonable excuses
77 Day of determination
78 Relationship with section 80 of the Social Security Administration Act
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Part 3—Activity supplement
79 Simplified outline of this Part
80 Qualification for the activity supplement
81 Electing method of payment
82 Amount of activity supplement
83 Determination of eligible activities
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Part 4—Farm financial assessments
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
84 Simplified outline of this Part
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Division 2—Farm financial assessments
85 Requirement to have farm financial assessment conducted
86 Requirement for farm financial assessment to be conducted by independent person who has appropriate qualifications or expertise
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Division 3—Farm financial assessment supplement
87 Qualification for farm financial assessment supplement
88 Electing method of payment
89 The amount of farm financial assessment supplement
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Part 4A—FHA supplement
89A Simplified outline of this Part
89B Qualification for FHA supplement
89C Amount of FHA supplement
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Part 4B—Relief payments
89D Simplified outline of this Part
89E Qualification for relief payment
89F Amount of relief payment
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Part 5—Application and modification of the Social Security Act and the Social Security Administration Act
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Division 1—Introduction
90 Simplified outline of this Part
91 Purposes of this Part
92 Further modification of the Social Security Act and the Social Security Administration Act
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Division 2—Application and modification of the Social Security Act
93 Application of the Social Security Act
94 Certain provisions do not apply
95 Modification of particular provisions
96 Application of Division 10 of Part 2.11 and Division 9 of Part 2.12 (bereavement payments) of the Social Security Act
97 References to youth allowance and jobseeker payment
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Division 3—Application and modification of the Social Security Administration Act
98 Certain provisions do not apply
99 Modification of particular provisions
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Part 6—Miscellaneous
100 Simplified outline of this Part
101 Delegation of powers
102 Delegation by Secretary: references to the Secretary and the Department
102A Debt waiver—farm household allowance paid for days occurring on or after 1 July 2015 and before 1 July 2020
103 Approval of forms
104 Annual report
105 Appropriation
106 Rules
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Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history
