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Social Security (Administration) (Declared relevant Northern Territory areas - Various (No. 5)) Determination 2007

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This determination named three specific Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory—Acacia Larrakia, Daly River, and Naiyu—as areas subject to special welfare payment rules.

What it does: Under Part 3B of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, declaring an area as a 'declared relevant Northern Territory area' allows the government to apply income management to welfare recipients living there. Income management means a portion of a person's Centrelink payments is restricted (or 'quarantined') so it can only be spent on priority items like food, rent, and medicine, rather than received as unrestricted cash.

Context: This instrument was made in December 2007 as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (often called 'the Intervention'). It operated temporarily, commencing on 13 December 2007 and expiring on 7 December 2008.

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Social Security (Administration) (Declared

relevant Northern Territory areas — Various (No. 5)) Determination 2007

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 each of those places listed in the Schedule is a declared relevant Northern Territory area for the purposes of Part 3B of the Act.

This Determination commences on 13 December 2007.

This Determination expires on 7 December 2008.

Dated 10 December 2007

J Macklin

Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Schedule - declared relevant Northern Territory areas (No 5)

ACACIA LARRAKIA

DALY RIVER

NAUIYU

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