Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1188M

                   A person who receives CDEP Scheme Participant Supplement:

                     (a)  in respect of both 19 March 2000 (the first qualifying day ) and the following day (the second qualifying day ); or

                     (b)  in respect of both the payment period in which the first qualifying day occurs and the payment period in which the second qualifying day occurs;

is taken, for the purposes of the definition of pensioner in subsection 4(1) of the National Health Act 1953 , to have been receiving the social security benefit on the first qualifying day for a continuous period of 9 months.