Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 539

539. A person is subject to an ordinary waiting period unless:

   (a)  immediately before becoming qualified for the unemployment benefit,
        the person was receiving a job search allowance; or

   (b)  the person has served an ordinary waiting period that ended not more
        than 12 weeks before the person's provisional commencement day; or

   (c)  both of the following conditions apply:

   (i)  the person is a transferee to unemployment benefit;

   (ii) the person claims the unemployment benefit:

                (A)  within 14 days of the transfer day; or

                (B)  where the person becomes registered as unemployed by the
                     CES within 14 days after the transfer day - within 14
                     days of the person becoming so registered or such further
                     period as the Secretary considers reasonable; or

   (d)  both of the following conditions apply:

   (i)  at some time in the 13 weeks immediately before the person's
        provisional commencement day, an unemployment benefit stopped being
        payable to the person;

   (ii) immediately before the benefit stopped being payable to the person,
        one or a combination of the following had been payable to the person
        for at least 12 months:

                (A)  a social security benefit;

                (B)  a payment as a trainee in full-time training under a
                     program included in the programs known as Labour Force
                     Programs.
Note 1: for "transferee" to a benefit and "transfer day" see subsections 23
(6) and (7).
Note 2: for "provisional commencement day" see section 534.
Note 3: for "ordinary waiting period" see subsection 23 (1).