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Social Security Act 2018

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446: Regulations: advance payment of instalments of benefit

You could also call this:

“Rules for getting your benefit money early”

The Governor-General can make rules about how you can get your benefit payments in advance. These rules explain how you can ask for your benefit money before it’s usually paid to you.

When you apply for advance payments, you might need to fill out a form. The form could be different depending on how many times you’ve asked for advance payments before. It might also change if you’ve asked for special help with money in the past.

The government can decide how you need to apply for advance payments. They might change the way you apply based on how often you’ve asked for help before.

These rules about advance payments are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to follow certain steps to become official rules.

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Part 8 Other provisions
Regulations

446Regulations: advance payment of instalments of benefit

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 347.

  2. Regulations made under subsection (1) may (without limitation) specify the manner and form in which an application may be made under section 347 for advance payment of instalments of a benefit.

  3. The specified manner and form may differ depending on (without limitation) the number of times the beneficiary has applied for either or both:

  4. advance payment under section 347 of instalments of a benefit:
    1. special assistance under section 101.

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

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      • Section 446(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).