245Variation for breach of specified obligation by one spouse or partner

1. This section applies if—

2. a main benefit is payable at a work-test couple rate; and
3. the rate of the benefit is reduced (by half or to zero), or the benefit is money managed, suspended, or cancelled, under any 1 or more of sections 227, 232, 233A, 236, 236A, 236C, 236D, 236F, 236G, 236I, and 236J; and
4. the reduction of the rate of benefit (by half or to zero), or the money management, suspension, or cancellation of the benefit, results from—
   1. the failure of one spouse or partner (P) to comply with 1 or more specified obligations under this Act; or
   2. the application to one spouse or partner (P) of section 227.

5. For the period that the rate of benefit is reduced (by half or to zero), or the benefit is money managed, suspended, or cancelled, under any 1 or more of sections 227, 232, 233A, 236, 236A, 236C, 236D, 236F, 236G, 236I, and 236J,—

6. the reduction of the rate of benefit (by half or to zero), or the money management, suspension, or cancellation, applies only to any default amount of main benefit payable to P; and
7. the other spouse or partner is entitled to receive any default amount of main benefit payable to them.

8. Any amount remaining after a reduction by half, or money management, is applied under subsection (2)(a) is payable to P.