Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011 (141 of 2011)

Schedule 1   Clean energy payments under the social security law

Part 5   Other amendments

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

84   After subsection 43(5A)

Insert:

No reduction of portion of quarterly clean energy supplement relating to a day

(5B) If:

(a) quarterly clean energy supplement is payable to a person for a particular day; and

(b) the social security payment to which the quarterly clean energy supplement relates is a social security pension; and

(c) apart from this subsection, the portion of the instalment of the person's quarterly clean energy supplement that corresponds to that day would be reduced under subsection 1210(3A) of the 1991 Act, but not reduced to a nil amount;

the amount of that portion of the instalment is not to be reduced under subsection 1210(3A) of the 1991 Act.