Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998
Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998
Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).
Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998
Reprint as at 26 November 2018
Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998
Public Act |
1998 No 94 |
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Date of assent |
20 August 1998 |
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Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).
Note
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this eprint. See the notes at the end of this eprint for further details.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Social Development.
Contents
An Act—
(a)
To amend the Social Security Act 1964 to provide a new work-test framework, and a sanctions regime, for all work-tested beneficiaries; and
(b)
To provide for related matters
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998, and is part of the Social Security Act 1964 (“the principal Act”
).
(2)
This Act comes into force on 1 October 1998.
Part 1 Amendments to principal Act
2 Interpretation
(1)
This subsection inserted definitions of the terms Employment required to satisfy the work test and Organised activity in section 3(1) of the principal Act.
(2)
This subsection substituted the definition of the term suitable employment in s 3(1) of the principal Act.
(3)
This subsection substituted the definition of the term work test in section 3(1) of the principal Act.
(4)
This subsection inserted paragraph (aa) of the definition of the term working day in section 3(1) of the principal Act.
3 Right of appeal
This section inserted s 12J(4) of the principal Act.
4 Voluntary unemployment or loss of employment through misconduct, etc
(1)
This subsection repealed the definition to the term rate of the benefit in s 60H(1) of the principal Act.
(3)
Nothing in subsection (1) entitles a person who, before 1 October 1998, had his or her benefit reduced under section 60H of the principal Act, to receive the benefit without that reduction until either the expiry of the period for which the reduction was imposed under that section, or the person becomes entitled to another rate of benefit under the principal Act.
5 Mandatory interviews
This section substituted s 60HA(2) of the principal Act.
6 Effect of work test on entitlement to supplementary benefits and on spouses
This section substituted s 80C(1)(c) of the principal Act.
7 New heading and sections inserted
This section inserted ss 101 to 123D, and the previous heading of the principal Act.
Part 2 Repeals and transitional provisions
8 Repeals
(1)
Sections 60GA, 60HB, and 60HC, and sections 60HD to 60KA of the principal Act are repealed.
(2)
The following enactments are consequentially repealed:
(a)
Section 16 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1991:
(b)
Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, and 28 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1996:
(c)
Section 2 of the Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1997.
9 Social Security Amendment Act 1998 amended
This section substituted s 58(4) Social Security Amendment Act 1998.
10 Transitional provisions relating to persons subject to sanction on commencement of this section
(1)
(2)
A person to whom this section applies may,—
(a)
In the case of a person who was participating in a programme or project referred to in section 60KA of the principal Act, continue to participate in that programme or project; or
(b)
In any other case, continue his or her non-entitlement period or continue to receive a reduced benefit and, subject to section 60KA, participate in a programme or project referred to in that section.
(3)
(4)
Where a person was, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, subject to any sanction under the principal Act other than a sanction referred to in subsection (1), that sanction is revoked with effect on the commencement of this section and any work-test failure on the person’s part that occurred before that date is not to be counted as a work-test failure on or after that date.
Eprint notes
1 General
This is an eprint of the Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Act 1998 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.
2 About this eprint
This eprint is not an official version of the legislation under section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012.
3 Amendments incorporated in this eprint
Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32): section 455(1)