Social Security Amendment Act 2000

  • repealed
  • Social Security Amendment Act 2000: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).

Reprint as at 26 November 2018

Social Security Amendment Act 2000

Public Act
 
2000 No 81
Date of assent
 
14 November 2000
 

Social Security Amendment Act 2000: repealed, on 26 November 2018, pursuant to section 455(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32).

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this eprint. See the notes at the end of this eprint for further details.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Social Development.

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:

 
1 Title

(1)

This Act is the Social Security Amendment Act 2000.

(2)

In this Act, the Social Security Act 1964 is called “the principal Act”.

2 Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

3 Amendments consequential on Health and Disability Services Amendment Act 1998

(1)

Section 3(1) of the principal Act is amended by inserting, after the definition of friendly society, the following definition:

funder has the same meaning as in section 20 of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993

(2)

Section 3(1) of the principal Act is amended by repealing the definition of purchaser.

(3)

Sections 61EA, 61G, 69C, 69E, 69F, 69FA, and 75 of the principal Act are amended by omitting the word “purchaser” wherever it appears, and substituting in each case the word “funder”.

(4)

Sections 61EA, 69C, and 75 of the principal Act are amended by omitting the word “purchased” wherever it appears, and substituting in each case the word “funded”.

(5)

Section 75(1) of the principal Act is amended by omitting the words “maintained by a Hospital Board under the Hospitals Act 1957”, and substituting the words “operated by a hospital and health service within the meaning of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993”.

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

Section 61I(1) of the principal Act is amended by repealing paragraphs (a) and (b), and substituting the following paragraphs:

(a)

by adding to any one of those definitions any standard urban area of New Zealand, or any zone within a standard urban area, (as those terms are 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, or any zone within a standard urban area, from the definition of Area 2 and adding it to the definition of Area 1.

5 Exemption from obligations

(1)

Section 105(1) of the principal Act is amended by omitting the word “beneficiary”, and substituting the word “person”.

(2)

Section 105(5) of the principal Act is amended by omitting the word “beneficiary” where it first appears, and substituting the word “person”.

(3)

Section 123D(a) of the principal Act is consequentially amended by omitting the word “beneficiaries”, and substituting the word “persons”.

Eprint notes
1 General

This is an eprint of the Social Security Amendment Act 2000 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 About this eprint

This eprint is not an official version of the legislation under section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012.

3 Amendments incorporated in this eprint

Social Security Act 2018 (2018 No 32): section 455(1)