List of amendments
Unofficial consolidated version of the Special Needs (Travel Costs for Visits to Designated Health Practitioners) Programme
-- as at 1 July 2021
Below is a list of amendments to the programme, starting with the most recent.
Source | Notes |
Instrument amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No 2) 2021 Gazette notice: Effective date: 1 July 2021 | This instrument, which comes into force on 1 July 2021, amends the specified ministerial directions and welfare programmes under section 101 of the Social Security Act 2018 in response to the removal of the "12 month rule" as facilitated by the Social Security (Financial Assistance for Caregivers) Amendment Bill which also comes into force on 1 July 2021. The 12 month rule refers to the requirement that in order for a caregiver to be eligible to receive the orphan's benefit or the unsupported child's benefit, they must be likely to be the principal caregiver of the child for at least 1 year from the date of the application for the payment. This instrument also amends the Direction in relation to Special Benefit to exclude allowances payable as a result of receiving the orphan's benefit or unsupported child's benefit from being considered "chargeable income". |
Instrument amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No 2) 2018 Gazette notice: Effective date: 26 November 2018 | This instrument, which is made under sections 7 and 101 of the Social Security Act 2018 (the Act) and regulations 90 and 211 of the Social Security Regulations 2018 and comes into force on 26 November 2018, amends the Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 (and saved by Schedule 1 of the Act) that are listed in the Schedule of this instrument in the manner set out in that Schedule. The amendments update references to provisions of the Social Security Act 1964 to equivalent provisions of the Act or the Social Security Regulations 2018 and for changes of language in the Act. It also revokes a spent direction and welfare programme. |
Instrument amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No 2) 2013 Gazette notice: Effective date: 15 July 2013 | This instrument, which comes into force on 15 July 2013, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 (the Act). Clause 4 and Schedule 1 primarily updates references to benefits and sections under which those benefits are granted with references to the replacement benefits and sections enacted in the Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Act 2013. A number of references to specific benefits are replaced with references to the new definition of the term main benefit under this Act inserted into section 3(1) of the Act. Clause 5 and Schedule 2 creates savings provisions for certain beneficiaries who on 15 July 2013 transfer to jobseeker support or supported living payment under section 40B of the Act from certain former benefits. |
Instrument amending ministerial directions and welfare programmes (No. 2) 2006 Gazette notice: Effective date: 9 June 2006 | This instrument, which comes into effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 to treat people in civil unions in the same way as people in marriages. |
