Explanatory note

This note is not part of this instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This direction by the Minister for Social Development sets out a number of circumstances in which the chief executive may consider there is good cause to exercise the discretion in the proviso to section 82(3) of the Social Security Act 1964 to direct that payment of the whole or any part of an instalment of benefit, or any number of instalments of a benefit be to a person other than the beneficiary personally.