Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006: revoked, on 1 April 2019, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203).
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006
Reprint as at 1 April 2019
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006
(SR 2006/378)
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006: revoked, on 1 April 2019, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203).
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.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Social Development.
Preamble
At Wellington this 11th day of December 2006
Pursuant to section 155 of the Social Security Act 1964, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
1 Title
These regulations are the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 15 December 2006.
3 Principal regulations amended
These regulations amend the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Regulations 2005.
4 Assets exempt from means assessment
(1)
Regulation 10(1) is amended by adding the following paragraph:
(f)
any ex gratia payment made to the person, on or after 15 December 2006, by or on behalf of the Crown, and made because the person suffered a personal injury that is, or was caused by, hepatitis C infection contracted through the New Zealand blood supply.
(2)
Regulation 10 is amended by inserting the following subclauses after subclause (1):
(1A)
The exemption in subclause (1)(f) applies only in respect of the first 12 months after the payment concerned is made.
(1B)
In subclause (1)(f), Crown, New Zealand blood supply, and personal injury have the meanings given to them by regulation 3 of the Social Security (Income and Cash Assets Exemptions: Personal Injury from Hepatitis C Infection Contracted Through New Zealand Blood Supply) Regulations 2006.
Rebecca Kitteridge,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 15 December 2006, extend the categories, prescribed by regulation 10 of the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Regulations 2005, of assets that are exempt from means assessment under Part 4 of the Social Security Act 1964.
The new category of exempt assets, which is prescribed by new regulation 10(1)(f), is any ex gratia payment—
made to a person, on or after 15 December 2006, by or on behalf of the Crown; and
made because the person suffered a personal injury that is, or was caused by, hepatitis C infection contracted through the New Zealand blood supply.
The exemption applies only in respect of the first 12 months after the ex gratia payment concerned was made.
(Crown, New Zealand blood supply, and personal injury have the meanings given to them by the related Social Security (Income and Cash Assets Exemptions: Personal Injury from Hepatitis C Infection Contracted Through New Zealand Blood Supply) Regulations 2006.)
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.
Date of notification in Gazette: 14 December 2006.
Eprint notes
1 General
This is an eprint of the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2006 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.
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
Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203): regulation 20