Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No 3) 1991
Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No 3) 1991
Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No 3) 1991
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Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No 3) 1991
Public Act |
1991 No 123 |
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Date of assent |
9 December 1991 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 3) 1991, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1992.
2 Net rates of national superannuation and veterans’ pensions to be adjusted annually by percentage movement in consumers price index
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 13, the following section:
“13a
“(1)
In this section—
“‘C.P.I.’ means the consumers price index—all groups published by the Department of Statistics:
“‘Standard tax’ means the amount of tax reckoned on a weekly basis that would be deductible in accordance with the tax code ‘G’ specified in section 344 of the Income Tax Act 1976.
“(2)
The rates of national superannuation and veterans’ pensions specified in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of clause 1 and paragraphs (b) and (d) of clause 2 of the First Schedule to this Act shall be adjusted, by Order in Council made under section 61h of the Social Security Act 1964, as at the 1st day of April each year so that in each case the new rate (after the deduction of standard tax) is the equivalent of the then existing rate (after the deduction of standard tax) increased by any percentage movement upwards in the C.P.I. between the C.P.I. for the quarter ended with the 31st day of December 1 year before the immediately preceding 31st day of December and the C.P.I. for the quarter ended with the immediately preceding 31st day of December.
“(3)
Every Order in Council made in accordance with this section shall come into force or be deemed to come into force on the 1st day of April of the calendar year in which it is made, and shall apply in respect of national superannuation and veterans’ pensions payable on and after that date.”
(2)
The first adjustment made in accordance with section 13a of the principal Act (as inserted by subsection (1) of this section) shall be made so as to come into force on the 1st day of April 1993.
3 Amending Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991
(1)
Section 2 of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991 is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:
“(3)
Sections 14(19) and 16(11) of the principal Act are hereby repealed.”
(2)
Sections 4 and 6(1) of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991 are hereby repealed.
(3)
Section 8 of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991 is hereby amended by omitting the proposed new subsection (2) of section 18a, and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
The living alone payment shall be included in the appropriate rate specified in clause 1(a) of the First Schedule to this Act.”
(4)
The said section 8 is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:
“(2)
Section 5 of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act 1990 is hereby consequentially repealed.”
(5)
The Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991 is hereby amended by repealing sections 10 and 11, and substituting the following section:
“10 New First Schedule substituted
“(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the First Schedule, and substituting the First Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act.
“(2)
Section 9 of this Act is hereby consequentially repealed.”
(6)
The Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991 is hereby amended by repealing the Schedules, and substituting the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act.
Schedule New Schedule to Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1991
Section 3(6)
“SCHEDULE New First Schedule To Principal Act
‘FIRST SCHEDULE Rates of National Superannuation and Veterans’ Pensions
Section 10(1)
(The following rates are before deduction of tax)
| 1. (a) To an unmarried person who is living alone | $11,807.64 a year ($227.07 a week). | |
| (b) To an unmarried person who is not living alone | $10,767.64 a year ($207.07 a week). | |
| (c) To a married person | $ 8,811.40 a year ($169.45 a week). | |
| (d) Rate of national superannuation payable to a married person who was entitled to receive national superannuation on the 10th day of October 1988 and whose spouse, on that date, was not entitled to receive national superannuation and is not entitled to either national superannuation or a benefit in his or her own right under Part I of the Social Security Act 1964 or Part I of this Act | $9,562.28 a year ($183.89 a week) or the rate for the time being specified in paragraph (c) of this clause, whichever is the greater. | |
| 2. Alternative rate for a married person whose spouse is not entitled to receive national superannuation or a veteran’s pension— | ||
| (a) To a married person with 1 or more dependent children who was in receipt of, or had applied for and was entitled to receive, guaranteed retirement income or a veteran’s pension at the alternative rate before the 1st day of October 1991 | $17,622.80 a year ($338.90 a week) diminished by 30c for every complete $1 of the total income of that person and his or her spouse in excess of $3,120 a year but not in excess of $4,160 a year, and by 70c for every $1 of such income in excess of $4,160 a year, or the rate for the time being specified in paragraph (d) of this clause, whichever is the greater. | |
| (b) To any other married person with 1 or more dependent children | $16,752.32 a year ($322.16 a week) diminished by 30c for every complete $1 of the total income of that person and his or her spouse in excess of $3,120 a year but not in excess of $4,160 a year, and by 70c for every $1 of such income in excess of $4,160 a year. | |
| (c) To a married person without dependent children who was in receipt of, or had applied for and was entitled to receive, guaranteed retirement income or a veteran’s pension at the alternative rate before the 1st day of October 1991 | $17,622.80 a year ($338.90 a week) diminished by 30c for every complete $1 of the total income of that person and his or her spouse in excess of $2,600 a year but not in excess of $4,160 a year, and by 70c for every $1 of such income in excess of $4,160 a year, or the rate for the time being specified in paragraph (d) of this clause, whichever is the greater. | |
| (d) To any other married person without dependent children | $16,752.32 a year ($322.16 a week) diminished by 30c for every complete $1 of the total income of that person and his or her spouse in excess of $2,600 a year but not in excess of $4,160 a year, and by 70c for every $1 of such income in excess of $4,160 a year.’” |
This Act is administered in the Department of Social Welfare.
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