Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 128, 1978 - SECT 40

40. After section 105L of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Deduction for period in institution
''105M. Where, on any day or days during an endowment period-

   (a)  a child in respect of whom a handicapped child's allowance is payable
        is an inmate of an institution; and

   (b)  by reason of being such an inmate, a benefit is payable for that day
        or those days in respect of the child under Part VA of the National
        Health Act 1953 or under Part VII of the Handicapped Persons
        Assistance Act 1974, there shall be deducted from the allowance
        payable in respect of that endowment period an amount calculated in
        accordance with the formula-

AX
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Y where-

A is the amount of the endowment that would, but for this section, be payable
in respect of that endowment period;

X is the number of days on which the benefit referred to in paragraph (b) was
payable in respect of the child;

Y is the number of days in the endowment period.''.