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Social Security Act 2018

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439: Regulations: certain benefits granted, or granted at rate, not taking into account certain insurance payments

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“Rules about how insurance payments affect certain benefits”

The Governor-General can make rules about certain benefits and insurance payments. These rules are for section 310 of the Social Security Act 2018.

The rules can do two main things:

  1. They can say which insurance payments and benefits these rules apply to.

  2. They can allow MSD (Ministry of Social Development) to stop, cancel, or change how much benefit you get. MSD can decide when to do this.

These rules are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to follow the rules in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 about how they are published.

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Part 8 Other provisions
Regulations

439Regulations: certain benefits granted, or granted at rate, not taking into account certain insurance payments

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 310.

  2. Regulations made under subsection (1) may (without limitation) do all or any of the following:

  3. specify the insurance payments and benefits or kinds of benefits to which the regulations apply:
    1. authorise MSD to suspend, cancel, or vary the rate of, the benefit, from a date MSD determines.

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

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      • Section 439(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).