Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 106B

             (1)  Subject to subsection (3), if:

                     (a)  a section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or a listed automatic issue health care card has been granted to a person; and

                     (b)  in order to be qualified for the card, the person must be receiving, or be qualified for, a particular social security pension or benefit; and

                     (c)  the pension or benefit is cancelled;

the section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or listed automatic issue health care card, as the case may be, is, by force of this section, cancelled.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  a health care card has been granted to a person; and

                     (b)  the person was qualified for the card under subsection 1061ZK(4) of the 1991 Act; and

                     (c)  the person ceases to be qualified under that subsection;

the health care card is, by force of this section, cancelled.

             (3)  Subsection (1) does not have effect in a case in which the Secretary determines in writing that he or she is satisfied that the person concerned is likely to be granted a social security pension or benefit before it is reasonably practicable to take steps to give effect to the cancellation of the card.

             (4)  In this section:

"listed automatic issue health care card" means an automatic issue health care card that is granted:

                     (a)  to a person who receives one of the following social security payments:

                              (i)  widow allowance;

                             (ii)  newstart allowance;

                            (iii)  sickness allowance;

                            (iv)  special benefit;

                             (v)  partner allowance;

                            (vi)  benefit PP (partnered); or

                     (b)  to a person who is receiving a youth allowance and who, at the time when a determination was made to grant the person the youth allowance:

                              (i)  was not undertaking full-time study; and

                             (ii)  was not a new apprentice; or

                     (c)  to a person who is receiving exceptional circumstances relief payment or farm help income support under the Farm Household Support Act 1992 .

section 1061ZA pensioner concession card means a pensioner concession card granted to a person who is qualified for the card under section 1061ZA of the 1991 Act.