Social Security Amendment Act 1983
Social Security Amendment Act 1983
Social Security Amendment Act 1983: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).
Social Security Amendment Act 1983
Reprint as at 26 November 2018
Social Security Amendment Act 1983
Public Act |
1983 No 138 |
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Date of assent |
16 December 1983 |
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Social Security Amendment Act 1983: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).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 to amend the Social Security Act 1964
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment Act 1983, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Security Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2
[Repealed]Section 2 was repealed, as from 1 April 1990, by section 37(10)(c) Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990 (1990 No 26).
3 Widows’ benefits
(1)
(2)
[Repealed](3)
Subsection (2) was repealed, as from 1 October 1986, by section 5(2) Social Security Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 39).
4 Interpretation
(1)
[Repealed](2)
[Repealed]5
[Repealed]Sections 5 to 6 were repealed, as from 1 July 1992, by section 7(2)(e) Social Security Amendment Act (No 5) 1991 (1991 No 143).
6
[Repealed]Sections 5 to 6 were repealed, as from 1 July 1992, by section 7(2)(e) Social Security Amendment Act (No 5) 1991 (1991 No 143).
7
[Repealed]Section 7 was repealed, as from 21 December 1990, by section 2(2) Social Security Amendment Act (No 3) 1990 (1990 No 132).
8 Repealing provisions relating to sickness benefit for a married person
(1)
This subsection repealed s 54A of the principal Act.
(2)
[Repealed](3)
The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:
(a)
Section 8 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1975:
(b)
Section 11 of the Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1977:
(c)
Section 10 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1978.
(4)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) of this section, if any person was, immediately before the commencement of this section, in receipt of a sickness benefit under section 54A of the principal Act, the Director-General shall continue to pay that benefit as if this section had not been enacted.
(5)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) of this section, any application for a sickness benefit under section 54A of the principal Act received by the Director-General in respect of any period of incapacity which commenced before the 1st day of January 1984 shall be dealt with and determined as if this section had not been enacted.
(6)
This section shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1984.
Subsection (2) was repealed, as from 1 October 1986, by section 18(2) Social Security Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 39).
In subsections (4) and (5) the references to the Director General were substituted, as from 23 June 1987, for references to the Commission by section 2(3)(b) Social Security Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 106).
9
[Repealed]Section 9 was repealed, as from 5 December 1984, by section 6(3) Social Security Amendment Act 1984 (1984 No 8).
10
[Repealed]Section 10 was repealed, as from 19 March 1990, by section 3(2)(a) Social Security Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 5).
11 Increasing rates of benefits in respect of period 19 January 1983 to 19 July 1983
(1)
In respect of the period commencing on the 19th day of January 1983 and ending with the 19th day of July 1983, the principal Act shall have effect as if each provision of that Act specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to this Act had been amended by omitting every expression set out opposite to it in the second column of that Schedule, wherever that expression occurs, and substituting in each case the expression set out opposite to it in the third column of that schedule.
(2)
This section and Schedule 1 to this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of January 1983.
12 Increasing rates of benefits on and after 20 July 1983
(2)
Sections 17 to 19 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the Social Security Amendment Act 1982 are hereby consequentially repealed.
(3)
This section and Schedule 2 to this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 20th day of July 1983.
13
[Repealed]Section 13 was repealed, as from 7 November 1984, by section 3(2) Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1984 (1984 No 19).
14
[Repealed]Section 14 was repealed, as from 7 November 1984, by section 4(2) Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1984 (1984 No 19).
15 Consequential repeal
Section 4(2) of the Social Security Amendment Act 1976 is hereby repealed.
16 Validating notices given to liable parents
Every notice of grant of a domestic purposes benefit under section 27L of the principal Act, and every notice of required contribution under section 27N of that Act, given to a liable parent on or after the 1st day of April 1981 and before the date of commencement of this Act, shall be valid and effective notwithstanding any want of form because it does not sufficiently conform to the forms prescribed in the Social Security (Contribution Towards Cost of Domestic Purposes Benefit) Regulations 1981; and the liability of any liable parent who has received any such notice shall be deemed to have commenced in the manner and at the time provided by section 27K(2) of the principal Act notwithstanding that there may have been a defect of that kind in the notice given to him.
Schedule 1 Amendments to principal Act increasing rates of benefits in respect of period 19 January 1983 to 19 July 1983
[Expired]Section 11(1)
The tables of rates set out in this Schedule have been omitted as they were superseded by those referred to in section 12(1) of this Act, which became effective on and after 20 July 1983.
Schedule 2 New Schedules 3 to 10, 12, 14, 16, and 17 to principal Act
Section 12(1)
(Effective on and after 20 July 1983)
Schedule 3 New Schedule 18 to principal Act
[Repealed]Section 13(1)
Schedule 3 was repealed, as from 7 November 1984, by section 3(2) Social Security Amendment Act No 2) 1984 (1984 No 19).
Schedule 4 New Schedule 19 to principal Act
[Repealed]Section 14(1)
Schedule 4 was repealed, as from 7 November 1984, by section 4(2) Social Security Amendment Act (No 2) 1984 (1984 No 19).
Eprint notes
1 General
This is an eprint of the Social Security Amendment Act 1983 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)