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Social Security Act 2018

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421: Regulations: residential requirement

You could also call this:

“Rules about who can get help from social security based on where they live”

The Governor-General can make rules about when someone is considered to meet the residential requirement for social security purposes. These rules can say when:

You are seen as meeting the residential requirement.

You should be treated as if you live in New Zealand, even if you don’t.

You don’t need to meet the residential requirement at all.

These rules are called secondary legislation. This means they are published in a special way for everyone to see.

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Part 8 Other provisions
Regulations

421Regulations: residential requirement

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 16 that specify circumstances in which a person—

  2. is taken to meet the residential requirement; or
    1. must be treated, for the purposes of satisfying the residential requirement, as being resident and present in New Zealand; or
      1. must not be required to comply with the residential requirement.

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

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        Notes
        • Section 421(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).