Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1061ZE

             (1)  Subject to subsection (5), a person is qualified for a pensioner concession card for the period of 52 weeks starting on the day on which this section begins to apply to the person.

             (2)  Subject to subsection (4), this section applies to a person if:

                     (a)  the person has been receiving a wife pension; and

                     (b)  the person's partner has been receiving disability support pension; and

                     (c)  the person's partner commences employment that requires him to work for at least 30 hours per week; and

                     (d)  the person ceases to be qualified for wife pension because the partner of the person:

                              (i)  commences that employment; and

                             (ii)  as a result, ceases (having regard, where appropriate, to the operation of section 1073J) to be qualified for the disability support pension.

             (3)  Subject to subsection (4), this section applies to a person if:

                     (a)  the person has been receiving a wife pension; and

                     (b)  the person's partner has been receiving disability support pension; and

                     (c)  the wife pension ceases to be payable to the person because there is an increase in the ordinary income of the person's partner from employment (and after any working credit balance of the partner is reduced to nil).

             (4)  Subject to subsection (6), this section only applies to a person while the person is in Australia and is an Australian resident.

Note:          If the person is temporarily absent from Australia, the person continues to be qualified for a pensioner concession card for a maximum period of up to 13 weeks (see Division 4).

             (5)  If, during the period of 52 weeks referred to in subsection (1), a person receives an instalment of a social security pension or a mature age allowance under Part 2.12B that relates to one or more days within that period, the person is not qualified under this section for a pensioner concession card on the day or days in relation to which the person receives the instalment.

             (6)  In spite of subsection (4), this section applies to a person in relation to a day if:

                     (a)  the person is in Australia on that day; and

                     (b)  the wife pension that the person had been receiving was received solely because of the operation of the scheduled international agreement between Australia and New Zealand.

Note:          If the person is temporarily absent from Australia, the person continues to be qualified for a pensioner concession card for a maximum period of up to 13 weeks (see Division 4).