Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 859

859. (1) If:

   (a)  the rate of a person's family allowance has been reduced because of
        the taxable income test provided for in Module D of the Family
        Allowance Rate Calculator at the end of section 1069; and

   (b)  the person asks the Secretary to make a determination under this
        section; and

   (c)  the person's taxable income for the tax year in which the request is
        made is likely to be less than 75% of the person's taxable income for
        the tax year that is the appropriate tax year immediately before the
        request is made; the Secretary must determine that the
        appropriate tax year, for the purposes of applying that Module to the
        person for a payday after the day on which the request is made, is the
        tax year in which the request is made.

(2) A request under paragraph (1) (b) must be made in writing, in accordance
with a form approved by the Secretary.