Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – class of persons) Instrument 2021 (Cth)

Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – class of persons) Instrument 2021

I, Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, make the following instrument.

Dated 19 January 2021

Michaelia Cash Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Schedules.............................................2 6 Class of persons - Compulsory Participant..........................2

Schedule 1—Repeals 3 Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – classes of persons) Instrument 2018 (No. 1)

1 Name This instrument is the Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – class of persons) Instrument 2021

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. Each provision in this instrument. 1 July 2021 1 July 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 500(2) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) income support payment; (b) parenting payment; and (c) PP child. In this instrument: Act means the Social Security Act 1991. early school leaver means a person who is under 22 years of age and has not completed the final year of school. final year of school means final year of secondary school or equivalent level of education. jobactive employment region means a geographical region in Australia in which employment services were delivered by one or more jobactive employment service providers on 1 December 2020. work means: (a) work which generates employment income; or (b) work where the person carries on a business, and where the most recent information reported to Services Australia in relation to the profitability of the business was that the business was generating a profit.