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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations - How obligation satisfied

286: How young person satisfies obligation after failure to comply

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“Fixing mistakes: How a young person can make up for not following the rules”

If you’re a young person who hasn’t followed your obligations, you can still make things right. You can do this in two ways. First, you can fix the thing you didn’t do. For example, if you missed a meeting, you could go to the next one. If it’s not possible to fix what you didn’t do, you can do something else instead. This other activity needs to be very similar to what you were supposed to do originally. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) will decide if the activity you suggest is good enough. Remember, it’s important to talk to MSD about this and get their okay.

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Part 5 Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: How obligation satisfied

286How young person satisfies obligation after failure to comply

  1. For the purposes of sections 270, 271, 280, and 281, a young person (P) satisfies an obligation after failure to comply if—

  2. P remedies the failure concerned; or
    1. where in the opinion of MSD that it is not possible to remedy the failure, P undertakes to MSD’s satisfaction an activity that is in MSD’s opinion the same as or substantially similar to the performance of the obligation.

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