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A NEW TAX SYSTEM (FAMILY ASSISTANCE) ACT 1999 - SECT 57GE Continued eligibility for single income family supplement if a qualifying child dies

A NEW TAX SYSTEM (FAMILY ASSISTANCE) ACT 1999 - SECT 57GE

Continued eligibility for single income family supplement if a qualifying child dies

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   an individual is eligible for single income family supplement (except under section   57GG) in respect of one qualifying child; and

  (b)   that child dies.

Individual remains eligible for single income family supplement for 14 weeks after the death of the child

  (2)   The individual is eligible for single income family supplement, at a rate worked out under Division   4B of Part   4, for each day in the period of 14 weeks beginning on the day the child died. This subsection has effect subject to subsection   (3) of this section and to section   57GF.

14 weeks reduced in certain circumstances

  (3)   The period for which the individual is eligible for single income family supplement under subsection   (2) does not include:

  (a)   if the child had turned 16 when the child died--any day on which the Secretary is satisfied the child would not have been a senior secondary school child if the child had not died; or

  (b)   if the child had not turned 16 when the child died--any day on which the child would have been aged 16, and on which the Secretary is satisfied the child would not have been a senior secondary school child, if the child had not died.