Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 500

             (1)   A person is qualified for parenting payment if:

                     (a)  the person has at least one PP child (see sections 500D and 500F to 500H); and

                     (b)  the person is an Australian resident; and

                     (c)  in a case where the person is not a member of a couple and does not have at least one PP child who has not turned 6--the person meets any participation requirements that apply to the person under section 500A; and

                    (ca)  in a case where the person is in a class of persons specified by legislative instrument under subsection (2)--the person meets any participation requirements that apply to the person under section 500A; and

                     (d)  at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

                              (i)  the person is not a member of a couple and the person was not a lone parent at the start of the person's current period as an Australian resident;

                             (ii)  the person has, at any time, been in Australia for a period of, or periods adding up to, at least 104 weeks during a continuous period throughout which the person was an Australian resident;

                            (iii)  the person has a qualifying residence exemption for parenting payment.

Note 1:       For Australian resident and qualifying residence exemption see section 7.

Note 2:       If a person is claiming parenting payment under a scheduled international social security agreement, the requirements of this subsection could be modified by section 10 of the Social Security (International Agreements) Act 1999 .

Note 3:       For lone parent and current period as an Australian resident see subsection 23(1).

             (2)  For the purposes of paragraph (1)(ca), the Minister may, by legislative instrument, specify a class of persons.