SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 56 Youth allowance--failure to nominate parent
SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 56
Youth allowance--failure to nominate parent(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.