Social Security (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Amendment Determination 2013 (No. 1) 1
Social Security Act 1991
I, Nicola Roxon, Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management, make this determination under subsection 106lL (2) of the Social Security Act 1991.
Dated 9 January 2013
 
Nicola Roxon
Attorney-General
Minister for Emergency Management
1              Name of determination
                This determination is the Social Security (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Amendment Determination 2013 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                This determination commences on the day after it is registered.
3              Amendment of Social Security (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Determination 2013 (No. 1) 
                Schedule 1 amends the Social Security (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Determination 2013 (No. 1)
Schedule 1        Amendment
(section 3)
[1]                Schedule 1
  
 
Omit everything after
 
Only the
 
Insert
 
bushfires:
 
(a)    in South-East and East Tasmania that commenced on 3 or 4 January 2013 which as at 5 January 2013 covered the affected Local Government Areas of Sorell, Tasman and Glamorgan-Spring Bay; and
(b)   in central Tasmania that commenced on 3 or 4 January 2013 which as at 7 January 2013 affected the area of Ellendale. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Schedule 2        Circumstances in which person adversely affected
                 A person is adversely affected by a major disaster mentioned in Schedule 1 if:
                (a)    as a direct result of the disaster:
                          (i)    the person is seriously injured; or
                         (ii)    the person is an immediate family member of an Australian who is killed; or
                        (iii)    the person’s principal place of residence has been destroyed or has sustained major damage; or
                        (iv)    the person is unable to gain access to his or her principal place of residence for at least 24 hours because:
                                 (A)  access to the place of residence is cut off; or
                                 (B)  the person is unable to leave a place affected by the disaster; or
               (b)    as a result of the disaster, the person’s principal place of residence was without a particular utility service for a continuous period of 48 hours; or
                (c)    the person is the principal carer of a child to whom paragraph (a) or (b) applies.
Note
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