Social Security (Administration) (Reasonable Excuse – Participation Payments) Determination 2018 (Cth)

Social Security (Administration) (Reasonable Excuse – Participation Payments) Determination 2018

I, KERRI HARTLAND, Secretary of the Department of Jobs and Small Business, make the following determination.

Dated 7 June 2018

K Hartland

KERRI HARTLAND Secretary of the Department of Jobs and Small Business

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Matters to be taken into account in deciding whether a person has a reasonable excuse 6 Matters not to be taken into account in deciding whether a person has a reasonable excuse

1 Name This instrument is the Social Security (Administration) (Reasonable Excuse – Participation Payments) Determination 2018.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 1 July 2018.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsections 42AI(1), 42AI(3), 42U(1) and 42U(3) of the Act.

4 Definitions Note: Some of the expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act or in the Social Security Act 1991, including the following: (a) declared program participant; (b) Employment Department; and (c) participation payment. In this instrument: Act means the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999. failure means a failure referred to in subsections 42AI(1), 42AI(3), 42U(1) and 42U(3) of the Act. demerit means a record on the Employment Department's Information Technology System that the person has committed a mutual obligation failure without a valid reason.