Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 128, 1978 - SECT 30

30. (1) Section 103 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following sub-sections:

''(3) Where an endowment is payable in respect of a child by virtue of
sub-section (5) of section 96 and-

   (a)  the child has not been brought to live in Australia within a period of
        four years commencing on the first day in respect of which the
        endowment became payable; or

   (b)  at any time within that period of four years, the Director-General is
        satisfied that the endowee does not intend to bring the child to live
        in Australia as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so, the
        endowment ceases to be payable.

''(4) Where, by force of sub-section (3), an endowment would, but for this
sub-section, cease to be payable during an endowment period, that endowment
shall, by force of this sub-section, cease to be payable at the end of the
endowment period.''.

(2) Section 103 of the Principal Act is further amended by omitting
sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:

''(2) Where an endowment ceases to be payable by reason of an event specified
in a paragraph of sub-section (1), the endowment ceases to be payable from the
end of the endowment period during which that event occurred.''.