Areas for accommodation supplement purposes may be altered by Order in Council

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Social Security Amendment Act (No 5) 1996

Public Act		1996 No 155
Date of assent		2 September 1996

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Areas for accommodation supplement purposes may be altered by Order in Council
3	Eighteenth Schedule amended
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1964 to—

(a)

Make provision for increased accommodation supplements to be paid to people living in certain urban areas where rent levels are similar to those in Wellington; and

(b)

Make provision for any further similar amendments by Order in Council

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 Security Amendment Act (No. 5) 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Security Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1996.

2 Areas for accommodation supplement purposes may be altered by Order in Council

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 61h (as substituted by section 3(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 1990), the following section:

“61I

“(1)

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, amend the definitions of the terms ‘Area 1’ and ‘Area 2’, in clause 1 of Part I of the Eighteenth Schedule to this Act—

“(a)

By adding to any one of those definitions, any standard urban area of New Zealand (as from time to time defined by the Government Statistician) that is not already included in either of those definitions; or

“(b)

By omitting any standard urban area of New Zealand (as so defined) from the definition of the term ‘Area 2’ and adding it to the definition of the term ‘Area 1’.

“(2)

The provisions of section 61h(2) to (6) of this Act shall apply, with any necessary modifications, to any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of this section as if that order had been made under section 61h(1) of this Act.”

3 Eighteenth Schedule amended

(1)

Clause 1 of Part I of the Eighteenth Schedule to the principal Act (as substituted by section 34(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993) is hereby amended by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical order, the following definitions:

“‘Area 1’ means the following parts of New Zealand (as from time to time defined by the Government Statistician):

“(a)

Auckland:

“‘Area 2’ means the following parts of New Zealand (as from time to time defined by the Government Statistician):

“(a)

Hamilton City urban area:

“(b)

Tauranga urban area:

“(c)

Rotorua urban area:

“(d)

Napier urban area:

“(e)

Hastings urban area:

“(f)

Palmerston North urban area:

“(g)

Wellington:

“(h)

Nelson urban area:

“(i)

Christchurch urban area:”.

(2)

Part II of the Eighteenth Schedule to the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting the word “Auckland” wherever it occurs, and substituting in each case the expression “Area 1”:

(b)

By omitting the word “Wellington” wherever it occurs, and substituting in each case the expression “Area 2”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Social Welfare.

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