• Specific Year
    Any

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 35 Claims by persons in gaol etc.

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 35

Claims by persons in gaol etc.

  (1)   A person who is:

  (a)   in gaol; or

  (b)   undergoing psychiatric confinement because he or she has been charged with an offence;

may make a claim for a social security pension or benefit or for a crisis payment not earlier than 3 weeks before the person's expected release day.

  (2)   A day is a person's expected release day for the purpose of subsection   (1) if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the person will be released from gaol or psychiatric confinement on that day.

Download

No downloadable files available