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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42F

Requiring a person to apply for job vacancies

             (1)  The Secretary may notify a person that the person must apply for a particular number of advertised job vacancies in the period specified in the notice if:

                     (a)  the person is required to satisfy the activity test; and

                     (b)  the person is receiving a participation payment other than a parenting payment.

             (2)  The person must give the Secretary a written statement from each employer whose job vacancy the person applied for during that period that confirms that the person applied for that job vacancy.

             (3)  The statement from the employer must be in a form approved by the Secretary.

             (4)  Subsection (2) does not apply to a person if the Secretary is satisfied that there are special circumstances in which it is not reasonable to expect the person to give the statement referred to in that subsection.



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