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Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
106AAutomatic cancellation on cessation of qualification
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106A Automatic cancellation on cessation of qualification
If a person who is the holder of a concession card ceases, otherwise than by virtue of section 104 or 105, to be qualified for the card, the card is cancelled by force of this section on the day on which the person ceases to be so qualified.
Subdivision C—Additional provision for certain pensioner concession cards and automatic issue health care cards
106B Automatic cancellation
(1) Subject to subsection (3), if:
(a) a section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or a listed automatic issue health care card has been granted to a person; and
(b) in order to be qualified for the card, the person must be receiving, or be qualified for, a particular social security pension or benefit; and
(c) the pension or benefit is cancelled;
the section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or listed automatic issue health care card, as the case may be, is, by force of this section, cancelled.
(a) a health care card has been granted to a person; and
(b) the person was qualified for the card under subsection 1061ZK(4) of the 1991 Act; and
(c) the person ceases to be qualified under that subsection;
the health care card is, by force of this section, cancelled.
(3) Subsection (1) does not have effect in a case in which the Secretary determines in writing that he or she is satisfied that the person concerned is likely to be granted a social security pension or benefit before it is reasonably practicable to take steps to give effect to the cancellation of the card.
listed automatic issue health care card means an automatic issue health care card that is granted:
(a) to a person who receives one of the following social security payments:
(ii) jobseeker payment;
(iv) special benefit;
(vi) benefit PP (partnered); or
(b) to a person who is receiving a youth allowance and who, at the time when a determination was made to grant the person the youth allowance:
(i) was not undertaking full‑time study; and
(ii) was not a new apprentice.
section 1061ZA pensioner concession card means a pensioner concession card granted to a person who is qualified for the card under section 1061ZA of the 1991 Act (except under subsection (1B) of that section).
Division 9—Date of effect of determinations
Subdivision A—Determinations relating to claims
107 General rule
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5), a determination under section 37 takes effect on the day on which the determination is made or on such earlier or later day as is specified in the determination.
(a) a decision (the original decision) is made rejecting a person’s claim for a social security payment or a concession card; and
(c) within 13 weeks after the notice is given, the person applies to the Secretary, under section 129, for review of the original decision; and
the determination embodying the last‑mentioned decision takes effect on the day on which the determination embodying the original decision took effect.
(a) a decision (the original decision) is made rejecting a person’s claim for a social security payment or concession card; and
(c) more than 13 weeks after the notice is given, the person applies to the Secretary, under section 129, for review of the original decision; and
the determination embodying the last‑mentioned decision takes effect on the day on which the application for review was made.
(a) a decision (the original decision) is made rejecting a person’s claim for a social security payment or concession card; and
(b) no notice is given to the person informing the person of the original decision; and
the determination embodying the last‑mentioned decision takes effect on the day on which the determination embodying the original decision took effect.
(a) a decision (the original decision) is made rejecting a person’s claim for a social security payment or concession card; and
(c) the Secretary reviews the decision under section 126 without any application under section 129 for review of the decision having been made; and
(d) a decision that the claim be granted is made as a result of the review;
the determination embodying the last‑mentioned decision takes effect on the day on which the determination embodying the original decision took effect.
Subdivision B—Determinations under section 78, 81A, 85, 85AA or 85A