Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 128, 1978 - SECT 25

25. After section 95 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:
Endowment not to be granted in respect of child in receipt of payments under
prescribed educational scheme
''95A. On or after 1 January 1979, an endowment shall not be granted in
respect of a child if the child is in receipt of payments under a prescribed
educational scheme. Endowment not payable in respect of child in receipt of
payments under prescribed educational scheme
''95B. (1) Where the Director-General is notified, on or after 1 January 1979,
by an authorized education officer that a child in respect of whom endowment
is payable has been approved for the purposes of a prescribed educational
scheme and will receive a first payment under the scheme on a date specified
in the notification, the Director-General shall direct that endowment in
respect of that child shall cease to be payable from a date specified in the
direction, not being a date earlier than the date specified in the
notification.

''(2) In this section, 'authorized education officer' means an officer of the
Department of Education authorized by the Secretary to that Department for the
purposes of this section.''.