Income Apportionment Resolution Scheme Determination 2025
5Definitions
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 5
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Income Apportionment Resolution Scheme Determination 2025.
5 Definitions
(1) In this instrument:
acceptance period has the meaning given by paragraph 14(2)(h).
Amendment Act means the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Act 2025.
approved form means a form approved under section 27.
correspondence nominee see section 123A of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.
effective acceptance means an acceptance that complies with section 17.
payment nominee see section 123A of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.
prescribed Act means:
an Act that forms part of the social security law; or
the repealed Farm Household Support Act 1992; or
an Act that forms part of the family assistance law; or
the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
prescribed income apportionment method means a method described in paragraph 2(2)(d) of Schedule 3.
relevant debt in relation to an entitlement under Schedule 3, means a debt that is referred to in subitem 2(2) of Schedule 3.
Schedule 3 means Schedule 3 to the Amendment Act.
scheme means the Income Apportionment Resolution Scheme established by force of Schedule 3.
(2) An expression used in the Social Security Act 1991 or in Schedule 3 and in this instrument has the same respective meaning in this instrument as it has in that Act or that Schedule.