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Social Security (Administration) (Declared relevant Northern Territory area — Pirlangimpi and Putjamirra) Determination 2008

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This Determination imposed compulsory income management on Centrelink recipients in two remote Northern Territory communities, Pirlangimpi and Putjamirra, requiring half of certain social security payments to be quarantined for essentials and accessed via a restricted BasicsCard (usable for food, rent, clothing and medicine but not alcohol, tobacco or gambling).

It applied to working‑age welfare recipients from 14 April 2008 until the Determination expired on 7 April 2009.

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Social Security (Administration) (Declared

relevant Northern Territory area — Pirlangimpi and Putjamirra) Determination 2008

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

I, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, acting under subsection 123TE (1) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (the Act), and on behalf of the Minister for Education and the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, determine that:

(a) the area known as Pirlangimpi is a declared relevant Northern Territory area for the purposes of Part 3B of the Act; and

(b) the area known as Putjamirra is a declared relevant Northern Territory area for the purposes of Part 3B of the Act.

This Determination commences on 14 April 2008.

This Determination expires on 7 April 2009.

Dated 8 April 2008

J Macklin

Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

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