3Interpretation

#### 3 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > agency means: (a) the matching agency; or (b) a source agency. > assistance agency means: (b) the Education Department; or (c) the Social Services Department; or (d) the Veterans’ Affairs Department; or (e) the Human Services Department. > assisted person means a person: (a) to whom personal assistance is being, or has been, given; or (b) who is claiming personal assistance. > basic data, in relation to a person, means: (a) the person’s family identity data; or (b) the person’s income data; or (c) the person’s TFN data. > Chief Executive Centrelink has the same meaning as in the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997. > child, in relation to a person, includes anyone who is the person’s child for the purposes of any personal assistance or any tax law. > data matching cycle means a cycle the steps in which are set out in section 7. > data matching program means the program referred to in section 6. > declared income, in relation to a person, means any income, or income of a particular kind, of the person for the purposes of any personal assistance or tax law. > dependant, in relation to a person, includes anyone who is the person’s dependant for the purposes of any personal assistance or tax law. > Education Department means the Department that is responsible for administering the payments known as child care benefit and child care rebate. > family identity data, in relation to a person, means any of the following data about the person: (a) surname; (b) any other name; (c) initial of any other name; (d) any former surname; (e) any other former name; (f) the initial of any other former name; (g) where the person is alive, current residential address or addresses and any other current address or addresses; (h) an identification number for the purpose of personal assistance; (j) sex; (k) marital status; (m) date of birth; (n) where the person is dead, date of death; (p) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, address or addresses and date of birth of any living spouse of the person; (q) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, date of birth and date of death of any deceased spouse of the person; (r) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, sex and date of birth of any living child of the person; (s) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, sex, date of birth and date of death of any deceased child of the person; (t) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, address or addresses and date of birth of any living parent of the person; (u) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, last address and date of death of any deceased parent of the person; (v) surname, any other name, initial of any other name, sex and date of birth of any other child of a parent of the person if the child: (i) has not turned 25; and (ii) is a dependant of a parent of the person; (w) kind of personal assistance of the person. > Human Services Department means Services Australia. > identification number for the purpose of personal assistance has the meaning given by subsection (2). > income data, in relation to a person, means: (a) declared income of the person; or (b) declared income of a spouse of the person; or (c) declared income of a parent of the person; or (d) personal assistance data of the person; or (e) spouse rebate of the person. > matching agency means: (a) unless a direction under section 3A is in force—the officers of the Social Services Department referred to in subsection 4(1); or (b) if a direction under section 3A is in force—the Departmental employees (within the meaning of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997) referred to in subsection 4(2). > officer, in relation to a source agency, means a person with duties, powers or functions in relation to an Act matters under which are dealt with by the agency. > parent, in relation to a person, includes anyone who is the person’s parent for the purposes of any personal assistance or any tax law. > person means an individual whether alive or dead. > personal assistance means: (b) assistance known as any of the following: (i) assistance under the AUSTUDY Scheme; (ii) assistance under the ABSTUDY Scheme; (iia) financial supplement under the Student Financial Supplement Scheme constituted by Part 4A of the Student Assistance Act 1973; (iii) assistance under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme; (iv) assistance under the Aboriginal Overseas Study Assistance Scheme; (v) assistance under the Scheme providing living allowances for English as a Second Language; (vi) assistance under the Commonwealth rebate for apprentice full‑time training scheme; or (c) a social security payment within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991; or (caa) a seniors health card referred to in subsection 1061ZG(1) of the Social Security Act 1991; or (cb) a payment of financial supplement under: (i) Chapter 2B of the Social Security Act 1991; or (ii) the Student Financial Supplement Scheme established under Chapter 2B of the Social Security Act 1991 as in force before the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Youth Allowance Consolidation Act 2000; or (d) any pension, allowance or other benefit or assistance given under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986; or (daa) any compensation or other benefit given under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004; or (dd) family assistance within the meaning of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999; or (e) an instalment of parental leave pay under the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010; and, in relation to a person, means personal assistance given to, or claimed by, the person. > personal assistance data, in relation to a person, means: (a) the type of the person’s personal assistance; and (b) the rate or amount of that personal assistance; and (c) any information regarding overpayments of personal assistance to the person. > personal identity data, in relation to a person, means any of the following data about the person: (a) surname; (b) first other name; (c) second other name or initial of second other name (if any); (d) current address or addresses; (e) sex; (f) date of birth. > Social Services Department means the Department administered by the Minister administering this Act. > source agency means: (a) an assistance agency; or (b) the tax agency. > spouse, in relation to a person, includes anyone who is: (a) a spouse or a partner of the person for the purposes of any personal assistance; or (b) a spouse of the person for the purposes of any tax law; and marital status has a corresponding meaning. > spouse rebate, in relation to a person, means the dependent spouse rebate of the person within the meaning of the Tax Act. > Tax Act means the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. > tax agency means the Commissioner of Taxation. > tax data means: (a) tax family identity data; or (b) tax income data; or (c) tax TFN data. > tax family identity data means the family identity data of persons that is held by the tax agency for the purposes of a tax law. > tax file number has the same meaning as in Part VA of the Tax Act. > tax income data means the income data of persons that is held by the tax agency for the purposes of a tax law. > tax law means any law of the Commonwealth relating to taxation. > tax TFN data means the TFN data of persons that is held by the tax agency for the purposes of a tax law. > TFN data, in relation to a person, means: (a) the person’s tax file number; or (b) the tax file number of any spouse of the person; or (c) the tax file number of any parent of the person. > Veterans’ Affairs Department means the Department administered by the Minister administering the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. (2) In this Act, identification number for the purpose of personal assistance means: (a) for the purposes of the definition of family identity data in subsection (1) and any references to family identity data—a number allocated to a person by an assistance agency for the purpose of assistance provided to the person; and (b) for any other purpose—a number referred to in paragraph (a) as modified by the matching agency. (3) The reference in paragraph 5 in Step 2 of the data‑matching cycle in section 7 to the matching agency extracting numbers from data includes a reference to the matching agency extracting numbers and modifying them as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b), and numbers so modified are taken to have been extracted from that data.