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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: work-test obligations

142: Person not subject to work-test obligations

You could also call this:

“When you don't need to follow work rules”

You don’t have to follow work-test obligations in certain situations. This applies even if you would normally have to follow these obligations. Here are the situations when you don’t have to follow work-test obligations:

If the government has postponed your obligation. They can do this using special rules.

If you’ve been excused from the obligation. There’s a specific part of the law that allows this.

If MSD (which stands for Ministry of Social Development) believes you’re already doing the kind of work that meets the work test requirements for you.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work-test obligations

142Person not subject to work-test obligations

  1. A person (P) who is otherwise subject to a work-test obligation is not subject to that obligation if—

  2. the obligation has been deferred under regulations made under section 431; or
    1. P has been exempted from the obligation under section 158; or
      1. MSD is satisfied that P is undertaking employment of the kind required to satisfy the work test for P.

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