SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42C No show no pay failures

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42C

  (1)   The Secretary may determine that a person commits a no show no pay failure on a day if:

  (a)   the person commits any of the following failures:

  (i)   the person fails to participate, on the day, in an activity that the person is required to undertake by an employment pathway plan that is in force in relation to the person;

  (ii)   the person fails to comply, on the day, with a serious failure requirement imposed on the person;

  (iii)   the person commits misconduct, on the day, while participating in an activity referred to in subparagraph   (i) or while purporting to comply with a serious failure requirement imposed on the person;

  (iv)   the person intentionally acts in a manner on the day (including by failing to attend a job interview), and it is reasonably foreseeable that acting in that manner could result in an offer of paid work in Australia (except particular paid work that is unsuitable to be done by the person) not being made to the person; and

  (b)   the person receives an instalment of a participation payment for the instalment period in which the day occurs.

Note:   A penalty amount is deducted from the person's participation payment for a no show no pay failure (see section   42D).

  (2)   Without limiting subparagraph   (1)(a)(i), a person fails to participate in an activity if:

  (a)   the person fails to attend the activity at all; or

  (b)   the person is not punctual in attending the activity.

Limitations on determining no show no pay failures

  (3)   If:

  (a)   more than one subparagraph of paragraph   (1)(a) applies to a person on a day; or

  (b)   a subparagraph of paragraph   (1)(a) applies more than once to a person on a day;

then the Secretary may only determine that the person commits one no show no pay failure on the day.

Note:   However, the Secretary may determine that a person commits no show no pay failures on 2 or more days.

  (4)   Despite subsection   (1), the Secretary must not determine that a person commits a no show no pay failure on a day if:

  (a)   both of the following apply:

  (i)   subparagraph   (1)(a)(i), (ii) or (iv) applies;

  (ii)   the person satisfies the Secretary that the person has a reasonable excuse for the failure; or

  (b)   the person is a new apprentice; or

  (ba)   the person is someone to whom section   42SB applies; or

  (c)   the day is in a reconnection failure period for the person.

Note:   The Secretary must take certain matters into account for the purposes of paragraph   (4)(a) and may be prohibited from taking other matters into account for those purposes (see section   42U). For the purposes of paragraph   (4)(a), see also section   42UA (about prior notification of excuses).

Determining an instalment period

  (5)   The Secretary must include in a determination under this section the instalment period in which a penalty amount (see section   42T) for the no show no pay failure is to be deducted from the person's instalment of a participation payment, provided that the penalty amount may not be deducted until at least the instalment after the first instalment made following notification to the person of the no show no pay failure.