15CKDefinitions

15CK Definitions

15CK Definitions

(1) In this Division, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires—

adjustment date, in relation to a year, means the first day of the pension pay period that ends on the first pension pay day in the October that next follows that year.

adjustment percentage for a year, in relation to a pension, means (subject to section 15CM) the percentage for that year in relation to that pension calculated in accordance with that section.

December quarter, in relation to a year, means the period commencing on and including 1 October in that year and ending on and including 31 December in that year.

Index number, in relation to a quarter, means the number for that quarter appearing in the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Sydney published by the Australian Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, as amended from time to time, or any Act of that Parliament replacing that Act, as so amended.

June quarter, in relation to a year, means the period commencing on and including 1 April in that year and ending on and including 30 June in that year.

March quarter, in relation to a year, means the period commencing on and including 1 January in that year and ending on and including 31 March in that year.

quarter, in relation to a year, means—

(a) the period commencing on and including 1 January in that year and ending on and including 31 March in that year,

(b) the period commencing on and including 1 April in that year and ending on and including 30 June in that year,

(c) the period commencing on and including 1 July in that year and ending on and including 30 September in that year, or

(d) the period commencing on and including 1 October in that year and ending on and including 31 December in that year.

September quarter, in relation to a year, means a period commencing on and including 1 July in that year and ending on and including 30 September in that year.

suspended pension means a pension that is not payable only by reason of marriage of the person to whom, but for the marriage, it would be payable.

year means—

(a) the period commencing on and including 1 July 1989 and ending on and including 30 June 1990, or