Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 5) Determination 2020

Dated 28 April 2020

Anne Ruston

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

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

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Modifications................................................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999            2

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 5) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under item 28 of Schedule 2 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020.

4  Modifications

                   Each modification of the operation of Part 5 of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 as set out in a Schedule to this instrument is determined for the purposes of item 28 of Schedule 2 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020.

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

1  Modifications of section 204A

(1)       Section 204A of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 is varied by inserting the following subsection after subsection (1):

          (1A)  The Secretary may require the Commissioner of Taxation to provide the Secretary with information about entities, including tax file numbers, being information that:

                     (a)  either:

                              (i)  is in the possession of the Commissioner; or

                             (ii)  may come into the possession of the Commissioner after the requirement is made (including information that comes into existence after the requirement is made); and

                     (b)  is:

                              (i)  information relating to the entitlement of entities to jobkeeper payments under the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020 for individuals; or

                             (ii)  information in notifications to the Commissioner that resulted in that entitlement (whether the information is about those entities or those individuals); or

                            (iii)  information relating to such payments that those entities are to receive, are receiving or have received.

The requirement may be of a standing nature.

(2)       Subsection 204A(2) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 is varied by inserting the words “or (1A)” after the words “subsection (1)”.

(3)       Subsection 204A(2) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 is varied by adding the following paragraph at the end:

                   ; (d)  to determine one or more of the following:

                              (i)  whether entities or individuals referred to in subparagraph (1A)(b)(i) have made claims for social security payments under the social security law;

                             (ii)  whether social security payments under the social security law are payable to those entities or individuals;

                            (iii)  whether those entities or individuals are receiving, or have received, social security payments under the social security law.