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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations - Recompliance

261B: How person recomplies after failure that resulted in community work experience being imposed and taking effect

You could also call this:

"What you must do to fix things if you didn't meet your obligations and got community work."

If you do not comply with an obligation and you get community work experience as a result, you can recomply in certain ways. You recomply if you meet the community work experience requirements that apply to you under section 236B(4). However, if the Ministry of Social Development has reduced your main benefit to zero under section 236C, but has not cancelled it under section 233A, then you recomply if you fix your failure under section 261.

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Part 5Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations: Recompliance

261BHow person recomplies after failure that resulted in community work experience being imposed and taking effect

  1. This section sets out how a person (P) recomplies after a failure—

  2. to comply with an obligation; and
    1. that resulted in community work experience being imposed on P and taking effect.

      1. P recomplies if P meets the requirements of community work experience that apply to P under section 236B(4).

      2. However, subsection (4) applies instead of subsection (2) if MSD has—

      3. reduced the rate of P’s main benefit to zero under section 236C; but
        1. not yet cancelled P’s main benefit under section 233A.

          1. P recomplies if P remedies P’s failure under section 261.

          Notes
          • Section 261B: inserted, on , by section 30 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).