SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) ACT 2007 (NO. 130, 2007) - SECT 6 Racial Discrimination Act--determining terms of relevant activity agreement for approved programs of work for income support
SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) ACT 2007 (NO. 130, 2007) - SECT 6
Racial Discrimination Act--determining terms of relevant activity agreement for approved programs of work for income support(1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply in relation to the implementation of guidelines, or the doing of any other acts, for the purpose of determining the terms of a relevant activity agreement in relation to an approved program of work for income support payment, if the implementation or acts are done in the period:
(a) beginning on 9 July 2007; and
(b) ending 5 years after the commencement of section 1 of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 .
(2) Any such implementation, or other acts, are, for the purposes of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 , special measures.
(3) Any such implementation, or other acts, are excluded from the operation of Part II of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 .
Definitions etc.
(4) In this section:
"approved program of work for income support payment" has the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1991 .
"relevant activity agreement" means:
(a) a Parenting Payment Activity Agreement (within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991 ); or
(b) a Youth Allowance Activity Agreement (within the meaning of that Act); or
(c) a Newstart Activity Agreement (within the meaning of that Act); or
(d) a Special Benefit Activity Agreement (within the meaning of that Act);
that is in force between the Secretary and a person who is ordinarily resident in a relevant Northern Territory area within the meaning of Part 3B of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 .
Reference to acts done includes failure to do an act
(5) In this section, a reference to any acts done includes a reference to any failure to do an act.