Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 32

             (1)  This section only has effect in relation to a claim for sickness allowance.

             (2)  For the purposes of section 29, if:

                     (a)  a person is temporarily absent from Australia; and

                     (b)  the person is absent in order to seek medical treatment of a kind that is not available in Australia;

the person is taken to be in Australia:

                     (c)  if the period of absence does not exceed 13 weeks--during the whole of that period; or

                     (d)  if the period of absence exceeds 13 weeks--during the first 13 weeks of that period.