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Short Title

Interpretation

Commencement and payment of benefits

Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1994

Public Act		1994 No 142
Date of assent		9 December 1994

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Interpretation
3	Commencement and payment of benefits
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1964

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Security Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Interpretation

Section 3(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of the term “temporary employment” (as inserted by section 2(3) of the Social Security Amendment Act 1991) the expression “13”, and substituting the expression “26”.

3 Commencement and payment of benefits

Section 80 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 32(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 1991) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (5), the following subsection:

“(5a)

Where—

“(a)

Any person in receipt of a benefit accepts an offer of employment that results in the cancellation of the benefit; and

“(b)

The duration of that employment is such that it is temporary employment (whether or not the person was aware that the employment was temporary employment when the person accepted the offer); and

“(c)

The person applies for a benefit following the termination of the employment—

then, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section or section 60(2) of this Act, but subject to subsection (2a) of this section and section 60(3) of this Act, the payment of the benefit shall commence on—

“(d)

The day on which the applicant became entitled to receive it; or

“(e)

The day on which the application was received—

whichever is the later date.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Social Welfare.

Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1994