Social Security Act 2018

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418: Regulations: general

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The Governor-General can make regulations for the Social Security Act 2018. You can find these regulations in the Legislation Act 2019. The Governor-General makes these regulations by Order in Council.

The Governor-General can make regulations about many things, such as who gets what kind of help and how they get it. They can also make regulations about what people have to do to get help and what happens if they do not do those things. The regulations can be about things like money management and community work.

Regulations are a type of law that helps make sure the Social Security Act 2018 works properly. They are secondary legislation, which means they are laws made under another law. You can learn more about secondary legislation in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

The Governor-General can also make regulations about other matters that are related to the Social Security Act 2018. These regulations can help make sure the law is working as it should. For example, they can be about how to calculate someone's income or how to disclose information about people. They can also be about things like the code of conduct for service providers and how it relates to the Privacy Act 2020 code of practice.

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Part 8Other provisions
Regulations

418Regulations: general

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of all or any of the following provisions:

    Part 2—Assistance

  2. sections 27, 28, 37, 41, 42, 80, 81, 88, 134, 164, 167, and 379 (prescription, for provision’s purposes, of health practitioners acting within their scope of practice (see the definition in Schedule 2 of prescribed health practitioner)):
    1. section 35(2)(a) (supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: when does person have restricted work capacity: period prescribed):
      1. section 55(1) (youth payment: incentive payments):
        1. section 62(1) (young parent payment: incentive payments):
          1. Part 3—Obligations

          2. section 143(1)(b) (time when work-test obligation applies):
            1. section 152, definition of evidential drug test, paragraph (c):
              1. section 152, definition of pass, paragraphs (a) and (b):
                1. section 152, definition of screening drug test, paragraph (c)(iii):
                    1. section 236A(4)(a) (money management: prescribed proportion of an instalment of P’s main benefit that is an instalment payable to P that is paid by the required manner of payment for money management (prescribed by regulations made under paragraph (jb) of this subsection)):
                      1. section 236A(5) and (6)(b) (money management: prescribed period starting when the sanction takes effect under section 236A(6)(a) within which P must recomply and until the end of which money management has effect):
                        1. sections 236B(4) and 236C (community work experience: prescribed search period starting when the sanction takes effect under section 236B(5)(a) for finding 1 or more positions that comply with section 236B(4)(a)):
                          1. sections 236B(4) and 236C (community work experience: prescribed minimum number of hours per week for prescribed minimum number of weeks (that start as specified in section 236B(4)(b)(ii))):
                            1. Part 5—Enforcement: sanctions and offences

                            2. section 250(1)(e) (excuse of good and sufficient reason: failure to comply with drug-testing obligation):
                              1. Part 6—Administration

                              2. section 304A(1)(g) (additional grounds for review of whether person’s information share child support payment is or was all or any of their weekly income):
                                1. section 340A (required manner of payment: money management for certain payments to people subject to sanction for first failure):
                                  1. sections 341(1) and (3)(d) and 342(1)(b) (which relate to youth support payments):
                                    1. section 344(2) (young person beneficiaries may elect youth money management):
                                      1. section 373(1)(a)(ii) and (b) (administration service providers: contracts):
                                        1. section 374(1)(c) (administration service providers: contents and form of contracts):
                                          1. Schedules

                                          2. paragraph (j) of the definition of general provisions child support payment in Schedule 2 (additional kinds of payments that are general provisions child support payments):
                                            1. clause 11 of Schedule 3, definition of appropriate number of weeks, paragraph (b) (calculation of income: interpretation):
                                              1. clause 10(3) of Schedule 6 (code of conduct: relationship with Privacy Act 2020 code of practice):
                                                1. clause 20(2) of Schedule 6 (disclosure of information about people to whom service provider’s contract applies).
                                                  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.

                                                  2. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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                                                  • Section 418(1)(i): repealed, on , by section 7 of the Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 23).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(ia): inserted, on , by section 59(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(ib): inserted, on , by section 59(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(ic): inserted, on , by section 59(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(id): inserted, on , by section 59(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Subpart 418(1)(ja): inserted, on , by section 35(1) of the Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 27).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(jb): inserted, on , by section 59(3) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(l): amended, on , by section 61 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                                                  • Subpart 418(1)(na): inserted, on , by section 35(2) of the Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 27).
                                                  • Section 418(1)(p): amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).
                                                  • Section 418(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).