Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

This section applies if, on a particular day (the reconsideration day):

a person’s schooling requirement payment has been, and remains, suspended under section 124M; and

a person responsible for the operation of a school in a State or Territory at which the person’s child is enrolled gives the Secretary written notice that the child is attending school, as required by the law of that State or Territory, to the satisfaction of the person responsible.

This section also applies if, on a particular day (the reconsideration day):

a person’s schooling requirement payment has been, and remains, suspended under section 124M; and

the Secretary has reconsidered the decision to suspend the payment (whether on an application under section 129 or on his or her own initiative); and

as a result of the reconsideration, the Secretary is satisfied that, as at the reconsideration day, subsection 124L(1) no longer applies to the person.

The cancellation of a schooling requirement payment may be reconsidered under section 85.

Section 124L provides that a schooling requirement payment is not payable to a person if he or she fails to comply with an attendance notice after the end of an initial compliance period (unless he or she has a reasonable excuse or special circumstances apply).

The Secretary must determine:

that the schooling requirement payment is payable to the schooling requirement person (subject to any other provision of the social security law or the Veterans’ Entitlements Act, as the case requires); and

that any arrears resulting from the operation of this section are to be paid at a time, or times, stated in the determination under this subsection (or worked out in accordance with that determination).

If the payment has been suspended under section 124M for a total period of less than 13 weeks (which need not be a continuous period) in relation to compliance with a particular attendance notice, the date of effect of the determination under subsection (3) is the day on which the latest suspension determination was made under section 124M in relation to such compliance.

A schooling requirement payment may be suspended more than once under section 124M (see subsection 124M(3)).

If subsection (4) does not apply, the date of effect of the determination under subsection (3) is:

the reconsideration day; or

an earlier day stated by the Secretary in that determination to be appropriate, in the special circumstances of the case applying as at the reconsideration day, as determined in accordance with the schooling requirement determination (if any).

For the purposes of subsection (5), the Secretary may vary a determination under subsection (3) to state an earlier date of effect, if the determination:

does not include such a statement; or

includes such a statement in relation to a later day.

Arrears resulting from the operation of this section may be paid to the person as a lump sum payment, a series of regular payments, or otherwise, in accordance with the determination under subsection (3).

The person is entitled to a payment, or payments, of arrears arising from the operation of this section at the time, or times, provided by the determination under subsection (3).

Division 9 of Part 3 (date of effect of determinations) does not apply in relation to a determination under subsection (3).