167Young person aged 16 to 19 years who has dependent child and who is spouse or partner of specified beneficiary

1. This section applies to a young person (P) who—

2. is 16 to 19 years old; and
3. is the spouse or partner of a specified beneficiary; and
4. has 1 or more dependent children.

5. P must do the following things:

6. be enrolled in and undertake to MSD’s satisfaction, or be available for, a full-time course of secondary instruction or tertiary education or approved training or work-based learning leading to—
   1. NCEA level 2; or
   2. a qualification that in MSD’s opinion is equivalent to NCEA level 2; or
   3. a higher qualification:
7. as required by MSD, participate in and complete a budgeting programme approved by MSD for the purpose:
8. as required by MSD, attend and participate in any interview with an MSD employee or a person on behalf of MSD:
9. as required by a contracted service provider assigned to the person, attend and participate in any interview with that provider:
10. as required by MSD or a contracted service provider assigned to the person, report to MSD or the service provider on the person’s compliance with the obligations set out in paragraphs (a) to (d):
11. co-operate with MSD, or a contracted service provider assigned to the person, in managing the spending of the benefit received by the person, as if that benefit were a youth support benefit:
12. attend and participate in regular discussions on budgeting with an MSD employee or a contracted service provider.

13. P must also—

14. as required by MSD, participate to MSD’s satisfaction in a parenting education programme approved by MSD for the purpose:
15. enrol each dependent child with a primary health care provider (for example, a primary health organisation, or a prescribed health practitioner who is a provider of primary health care):
16. take all reasonable steps to ensure that each dependent child under the age of 5 years is up to date with core checks under—
    1. the programme that immediately before 15 July 2013 was known as Well Child; or
    2. any similar programme established in its place:
17. ensure that each dependent child under the age of 5 years attends an approved early childhood education programme or other suitable childcare while the young person is in education, training, work-based learning, or part-time work.

18. If P meets the criteria prescribed in regulations made for the purposes of section 62 under section 418(1)(d), P is entitled to receive the appropriate incentive payment (if any) stated in subpart 3 of Part 6 of Schedule 4 as if he or she were receiving a young parent payment.

19. P is not subject to the work test, or to work-preparation obligations.

20. If P is aged under 20 years when the obligations in subsections (2) and (3) start to apply to P, those obligations continue—

21. until the close of the day that is 6 months after the date on which the obligations started to apply to P, even if he or she turns 20 during that 6-month period; or
22. if P, on the day on which he or she turns 20, is continuing in a course of education, training, or work-based learning, until,—
    1. if the course is a course of secondary instruction or if the course ends in December, the close of the following 31 March; or
    2. in any other case, the close of the day on which the course ends.

23. If paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (6) both apply to P, those obligations continue until the later of the 2 dates that apply under those paragraphs.

24. While P is subject to obligations under subsection (2) or (3) (being obligations to which P became subject on or after 25 October 2016), sections 341 and 342 and the obligation in section 162(1)(i) apply to P as if he or she were receiving a youth support payment.

Compare

• 1964 No 136 ss 170(1)(a)–(f) and (g)(i), 170(2), 171(2), (5)