Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 14

             (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"physically present in a remote area" has the meaning given by subsection (2).

"remote area" means:

                     (a)  those parts of Australia referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act; and

                    (aa)  those parts of Australia referred to in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act that are more than 250 kilometres by the shortest practicable surface route from the centre point of the nearest urban centre with a census population (within the meaning of that Act) of 2,500 or more; and

                    (ab)  those places in Australia that, for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act, are treated by the Commissioner for Taxation as being in a part of Australia referred to in paragraph (aa);

                     (b)  the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and

                     (c)  the Territory of Christmas Island; and

                     (d)  Lord Howe Island.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  a person's usual place of residence is in the remote area; and

                     (b)  the person is absent from the remote area for a period;

the person is to be taken to be physically present in the remote area during:

                     (c)  if the period does not exceed 8 weeks--the whole of that period; or

                     (d)  if the period exceeds 8 weeks--the first 8 weeks of that period.