Reconnection requirements for mutual obligation failures and work refusal failures
42AM Reconnection requirements for mutual obligation failures and work refusal failures
The Secretary must impose a requirement (the reconnection requirement) on a person if the Secretary determines under section 42AF or 42AG that a participation payment is not payable to the person for a period.
The Secretary must notify the person, in any way the Secretary considers appropriate, of:
the reconnection requirement; and
the effect of not complying with the reconnection requirement.
The Secretary must determine that the person’s participation payment is cancelled if:
the Secretary does not determine an earlier day for the purposes of ending the person’s payment suspension period under paragraph 42AL(3)(b); and
the person fails to comply with the reconnection requirement within 4 weeks after it is notified under subsection (2) of this section.
If the Secretary makes a determination under subsection (3), the participation payment is cancelled at the end of the 4 weeks mentioned in paragraph (3)(b).
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