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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant - Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

321: Effect of no longer being subject to dependent children obligations

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“What happens when you don't have to follow the rules about caring for children anymore”

If you have been punished for not meeting your obligations related to dependent children, this law explains what happens when those obligations no longer apply to you. The punishment, which is called a sanction, might have been given to you because you didn’t follow the rules about dependent children. These rules are written in different parts of the law. When you no longer have to follow these rules about dependent children, the punishment will stop. This means you won’t be sanctioned anymore for that specific obligation once it doesn’t apply to you.

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Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant: Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

321Effect of no longer being subject to dependent children obligations

  1. This section applies to a sanction imposed on a person—

  2. under section 236, 237, or 238 (as applied by section 136); and
    1. in respect of an obligation that the person had under any of sections 131 to 135.

      1. The sanction ceases to apply to the person on the person ceasing to have that obligation.

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