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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Deferral of work-test obligations

155: Deferral of work-test obligations

You could also call this:

“When MSD can put off your job-seeking tasks”

MSD can delay your work-test obligations if the rules allow it. This means you might not have to do certain tasks for a while.

Sometimes, MSD must delay your work-test obligations if the rules say so. This isn’t a choice for MSD; they have to do it when the rules tell them to.

The rules about when MSD can or must delay your work-test obligations are written in another part of the law called section 431.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Deferral of work-test obligations

155Deferral of work-test obligations

  1. MSD may defer a person’s work-test obligations in accordance with regulations made under section 431 permitting it to do so.

  2. MSD must defer a person’s work-test obligations in accordance with regulations made under section 431 requiring it to do so.

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