Social Security Act 1991

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

those parts of Australia referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act; and

those parts of Australia referred to in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act that are more than 250 kilometres by the shortest practicable surface route from the centre point of the nearest urban centre with a census population (within the meaning of that Act) of 2,500 or more; and

those places in Australia that, for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act, are treated by the Commissioner for Taxation as being in a part of Australia referred to in paragraph (aa); and

Norfolk Island; and

the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and

the Territory of Christmas Island; and

Lord Howe Island.

If:

a person’s usual place of residence is in the remote area; and

the person is absent from the remote area for a period;

if the period does not exceed 8 weeks—the whole of that period; or

if the period exceeds 8 weeks—the first 8 weeks of that period.