Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1983 No. 69, 1983 - SECT 69

69. After Part VIII of the Principal Act the following Part is inserted:

                ''PART VIIIA-OPEN EMPLOYMENT INCENTIVE BONUS
Interpretation

''29A. In this Part, 'normal employment', in relation to a person, has the
same meaning as it has in Part VIII. Open employment incentive bonus

''29B. (1) Where-

   (a)  a person who has completed a continuous period of not less than 6
        months' sheltered employment provided by an eligible organization
        completes, on or after 1 October 1983, a further continuous period of
        12 months' normal employment; and

   (b)  the 2 periods are continuous with one another or are separated by an
        interval that is so short that, in the opinion of the Minister, it is
        not significant for the purposes of this section,
the Minister may, in his discretion, pay to the person an open employment
incentive bonus of $500.

''(2) The Minister may, by reason of special circumstances, direct that 2 or
more periods of normal employment of a person and the intervals that separate
them shall, together, be treated, for the purposes of paragraph (1) (a), as
one continuous period of normal employment.

''(3) The payment of a bonus under this section to a particular person shall
not be made more than once. Claims

''29C. A claim for the payment of a bonus under section 29B shall be in a form
approved by the Minister and shall be lodged with the Department within the
period of 6 months, or such longer period as the Minister permits, commencing
at the expiration of the period of 12 months' normal employment to which the
claim relates.''.