Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – classes of persons) (DEEWR) Specification 2011 (No. 1)
Social Security Act 1991
I, BILL SHORTEN, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Specification under subsection 500 (2) of the Social Security Act 1991 (the Act).
Dated 20th                                   December 2011      
BILL SHORTEN
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
1              Name of instrument
                This instrument is the Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements – classes of persons) (DEEWR) Specification 2011 (No. 1)
 
2              Commencement
                This instrument commences on 1 January 2012.
 
 
3           Definitions
 
               In this instrument:
 
 
 
 
 
 
trial location means the Local Government Areas of:
 
(a)    Logan (QLD);
(b)   Rockhampton (QLD);
(c)    Playford (SA);
(d)   Bankstown (NSW);
(e)    Wyong (NSW);
(f)    Shellharbour (NSW);
(g)   Greater Shepparton (VIC);
(h)   Hume (VIC);
(i)     Burnie (TAS); or
(j)     Kwinana (WA).  
 
 
4              Class of persons – teenage parent
                (1) For subsection 500(2) of the Act, a person is in a specified class of persons if the person:
 
 
(a)    is the parent of a child who has not turned 6; and 
(b)   has not completed the final year of secondary school or an equivalent qualification;  and
(c)    was aged 19 or under on 1 January 2012; and
(d)   was aged 19 or under at the time they commenced residing in a trial location; and   
(e)    resides in a trial location.
 
 
(2) Despite subsection 4(1), a person will be in a specified class of persons    if they cease to reside in a trial location but subparagraphs 4(1)(a) to 4(1)(d) continue to apply to them. 
 
(3) Despite subsections 4(1) and 4(2), a person is only in a specified class of persons for the period from 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2015.