Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 56

             (1)  This section applies to a person if:

                     (a)  the person is under 18 years of age and is not independent; and

                     (b)  youth allowance has become payable to the person; and

                     (c)  the person has more than one living parent; and

                     (d)  at the end of the period of 28 days starting on the day on which youth allowance became payable to the person:

                              (i)  the person has not nominated a parent for the purposes of subsection 45(1); and

                             (ii)  the Secretary has not given a direction under subsection 45(2) in relation to payment of instalments of the person's youth allowance.

             (2)  Youth allowance is not payable to a person while this section applies to the person.

             (3)  If a person to whom this section applies nominates a parent for the purposes of subsection 45(1), this section ceases to apply to the person.