1Social Security (Special Disability Trust – Discretionary Spending) Determination 2025

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Social Security (Special Disability Trust – Discretionary Spending) Determination 2025

I, Gillian Beer, delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following determination.

Dated 20.05.2025 

 

Gillian Beer

Branch Manager

Payment Structures and Seniors Branch

Delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  Trust expenditure requirements...................................2

Schedule 1—Repeals 3

Social Security (Special Disability Trust - Discretionary Spending) Determination 2024 3

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Special Disability Trust – Discretionary Spending) Determination 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument 1 July 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 1209RA(3) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in definitions section of the Act, including the following:

1.      principal beneficiary; and
2.      special disability trust.