Compliance action for work refusal failures
42AG Compliance action for work refusal failures
If a person commits a work refusal failure, the Secretary may:
determine that the person’s participation payment is not payable to the person for a period (see section 42AL); or
determine that the person’s participation payment is cancelled (see section 42AP) if the person does not satisfy the Secretary that the person has a reasonable excuse for the work refusal failure (see section 42AI).
Action not to be taken—instalment already reduced to nil for instalment period when failure committed
Despite subsection (1), the Secretary must not take action under this section for a work refusal failure (the relevant failure) if:
the Secretary has previously determined under paragraph 42AF(2)(c) that the amount of an instalment of the person’s participation payment for an instalment period is to be reduced; and
the instalment for the instalment period is reduced by the whole of the amount of the instalment (see paragraph 42AN(3)(b)); and
the person commits the relevant failure during that instalment period.
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