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.