New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Without limiting the general power to make regulations under section 132, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 61G (which relates to temporary additional support) including, without limitation, provisions that—
(a) prescribe or provide for the setting of eligibility criteria for receiving temporary additional support:
(b) prescribe amounts allowed for standard living costs that ought to be met from chargeable income (standard costs), or 1 or more means of calculating amounts of standard. costs, which may differ depending on—
(i) whether the applicant or the applicant's spouse or partner, or both of them, is or are receiving a benefit or tax credit:
(ii) the kind and amount of benefit or benefits or tax credit or credits received by the applicant or his or her spouse or partner:
(iii) whether the applicant has a spouse or partner or dependent children:
(iv) whether the applicant's spouse or partner is lawfully or unlawfully in New Zealand:
(v) the number and ages of the applicant's dependent children:
(c) define the kinds of costs that are allowable costs, including any limits on the extent to which any such costs are allowable costs:
(d) define the kinds of income, benefits, credits, and receipts that are chargeable income, including any limits on the extent to which any income, benefit, credit, or receipt of that kind is chargeable income:
(e) prescribe amounts of temporary additional support that may be granted or 1 or more means for calculating the amount of temporary additional support to be granted, which may differ depending on whether the applicant—
(i) has a dependent spouse or partner; or
(ii) has a dependent child; or
(iii) is in any other prescribed circumstances:
(f) define the kinds of assets that are cash assets, including any limits on the extent to which any such assets are cash assets, and prescribe 1 or more cash asset limits, which may differ depending on whether the applicant—
(i) has a dependent spouse or partner; or
(ii) has a dependent child; or
(iii) is in any other prescribed circumstances:
(g) prescribe the period or periods for which temporary additional support may be granted:
(h) authorise the payment of temporary additional support in a lump sum up to a specified maximum amount in any prescribed circumstances.
(2) For the purposes of any calculation made under section 61G or any regulations made under subsection (1), the allowable costs, cash assets, and chargeable income of an applicant include the allowable costs, cash assets, and chargeable income of the applicant's spouse or partner.
Section 132AB was inserted, as from 4 June 2004, by section 17 Social Security (Working for Families) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 51). See sections 23 to 25 of that Act as to the transitional provisions.
Subsection (1)(b), (e) and (f) were amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 4(1) Social Security Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 21) by inserting the words “or partner”
after the word “spouse”
wherever it appears.
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 4(2) Social Security Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 21) by inserting the words “or partner”
.