12Increased hours result

#### 12 Increased hours result (1) The increased hours result is 100. > Note: The number of hours of a recognised participation type for an individual to be counted towards the increased hours result may be affected by Minister’s rules made for the purposes of subclause (4), or a Secretary’s determination made under subclause (5). (1A) The increased hours result applies to an individual for a CCS fortnight if the individual engages in more than 48 hours of a recognised participation type in the CCS fortnight. What is a recognised participation type (2) An individual engages in a recognised participation type if the individual engages in any one or more of the following: (a) paid work (whether or not as an employee); (b) a training course for the purpose of improving the individual’s work skills or employment prospects, or both; (c) an approved course of education or study; (d) a participation type prescribed by the Minister’s rules, in circumstances (if any) prescribed by those rules; (e) a participation type determined for the individual by the Secretary under subclause (5), in circumstances (if any) specified in the determination. > Note 1: The definition of paid work in section 3B does not apply in relation to paragraph (2)(a) of this clause. For the purposes of that paragraph, paid work has its ordinary meaning. > Note 2: For approved course of education or study, see subsection 541B(5) of the Social Security Act 1991 and subsection 3(1) of this Act. Associated participation types (3) An individual who engages in a recognised participation type mentioned in any of paragraphs (2)(a) to (d) is taken also to engage in the recognised participation type while: (a) engaging in another participation type prescribed by the Minister’s rules as being associated with the recognised participation type; or (b) taking leave or another break from, or otherwise not performing, the recognised participation type in circumstances prescribed by the Minister’s rules (whether or not the individual has engaged in the recognised participation type during the CCS fortnight). Hours during which participation types are engaged in (4) For the purposes of working out the increased hours result for an individual who engages in a recognised participation type mentioned in any of paragraphs (2)(a) to (d) during a CCS fortnight, the Minister’s rules may prescribe either or both of the following: (a) how to work out a number of hours of the recognised participation type that is taken to be counted towards the participation type in that fortnight (which may be more or less than the actual number of hours during which the individual engaged in the participation type during the fortnight); (b) a maximum number of hours that are to be counted towards the participation type in that fortnight (including a maximum number of hours taken to be so counted by the operation of rules made for the purposes of paragraph (a)). Secretary’s determination (5) The Secretary may, in writing, make a determination for an individual for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e). The determination may also provide for any matter covered by Minister’s rules that may be made for the purposes of subclause (3) or (4) in relation to the individual. (6) A determination made under subclause (5) is not a legislative instrument. Changes in the number of hours of a recognised participation type (7) In working out the increased hours result, a change in the number of hours of a recognised participation type in which an individual engages in a CCS fortnight is to be disregarded until the CCS fortnight immediately after the CCS fortnight in which the change occurs.