SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 124L School attendance--condition of schooling requirement payments

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 124L

  (1)   A schooling requirement payment is not payable to a schooling requirement person if the person fails to comply with an attendance notice given to the person under section   124K.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to the schooling requirement person in relation to an attendance notice, as at a particular day, if:

  (a)   the initial compliance period stated in the notice (as extended, if at all, under subsection   124K(5)) has not ended at that day; or

  (b)   the Secretary is satisfied that:

  (i)   as at that day, the person has a reasonable excuse, as determined in accordance with the schooling requirement determination (if any), for failing to comply with the attendance notice; or

  (ii)   in the special circumstances of the case applying as at that day, as determined in accordance with the schooling requirement determination (if any), it is appropriate that the subsection should not apply as at that day.

  (3)   A schooling requirement payment cannot be suspended, or cancelled, because of the application of subsection   (1) except as provided by section   124M.

  (4)   For a schooling requirement payment under the Veterans' Entitlements Act:

  (a)   this section does not apply in relation to the grant of the payment; but

  (b)   this section otherwise applies in relation to the payment.