SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42SD Deduction of penalty amount

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 42SD

    If the Secretary determines that a person commits a non - attendance failure, the person's penalty amount (see section   42T) for the non - attendance failure is to be deducted from the person's instalment of a participation payment for the instalment period determined under subsection   42SC(3).

Note:   The balance of the penalty amount is to be deducted from instalments of the participation payment for any later instalment periods, or from any instalments of any other participation payment paid to the person (see section   42V).