List of amendments

Source

Notes

Instrument amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No 2) 2018

Gazette notice:
Number 5345, dated 26 October 2018

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 Welfare Programmes 2016

Gazette notice:
Number 1630, dated 24 March 2016

Effective date: 1 April 2016

This instrument, which comes into force on 1 April 2016, amends three welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964.

Clause 4 and the Schedule amends:

• the Home Help Programme, to adjust the hourly rate to reflect a 3.4% increase in the adult minimum wage:
• the Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000, to adjust average regional rents to reflect movements in rentals:
• the Work Bonus Programme, to change references to a dependent child aged under five years to a dependent child aged under three years, consequentially on the amendments made by the Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 on 1 April 2016 to the age of a dependent child for work-testing purposes.