Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 121, 1979 - SECT 34

34. After section 105QA of the Principal Act the following section is
inserted: Cessation of handicapped child's allowance by reason of cessation of
custody, care and control, &c.
''105QB. (1) Subject to sub-section (3), a handicapped child's allowance
payable to a person in respect of a child ceases to be payable if-

   (a)  the person ceases to have the custody, care and control of the child;
        or

   (b)  the child, being a child in the custody, care and control of a person,
        becomes an inmate of an institution.

''(2) Where a handicapped child's allowance ceases to be payable to a person
by reason of an event specified in sub-section (1), the allowance ceases to be
payable on the day on which the event occurred.

''(3) Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to a child by reason only
that the child becomes an inmate of an institution if he becomes, or became,
such an inmate during a period in respect of which a direction under
sub-section (1) of section 105KA with respect to the child is in force.''.