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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.



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