Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007

  • revoked
  • Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007: revoked, on 1 April 2019, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203).

Reprint as at 1 April 2019

Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007

(SR 2007/97)

Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007: revoked, on 1 April 2019, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203).

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.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Social Development.

Preamble

At Wellington this 23rd day of April 2007

Pursuant to section 155 of the Social Security Act 1964, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1 Title

These regulations are the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 27 April 2007.

3 Principal regulations amended
4 Assets exempt from means assessment

(1)

Regulation 10(1) is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(g)

any ex gratia payment—

(i)

made to the person, on or after 27 April 2007, by the Crown; and

(ii)

made in accordance with the MoU on measures related to veterans.

(2)

Regulation 10 is amended by inserting the following subclause after subclause (1B):

(1C)

In subclause (1)(g), MoU on measures related to veterans means the memorandum of understanding—

(a)

signed on 6 December 2006 for and on behalf of the following (the parties):

(i)

the Ex-Vietnam Services Association; and

(ii)

the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association; and

(iii)

the Crown; and

(b)

not intended to be legally binding on the parties, but recording their intentions on a package of measures related to Vietnam veterans and other veterans.

Rebecca Kitteridge,

for Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 27 April 2007, are made under the Social Security Act 1964 (the Act). They extend the categories, prescribed by regulation 10 of the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Regulations 2005, of assets that are exempt from means assessment under Part 4 of the Act.

The new category of exempt assets, which is prescribed by new regulation 10(1)(g), is any ex gratia payment—

  • made to a person, on or after 27 April 2007, by the Crown; and

  • made in accordance with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on measures related to veterans.

When these regulations were made, the MoU was available through the website of the Joint Working Group on Concerns of Viet Nam Veterans: www.vietnamvetswg.govt.nz.

The MoU is not intended to be legally binding on the parties to it, but records their intentions on a package of measures related to Vietnam veterans and other veterans. That package contemplates ex gratia payments for the following people:

  • Vietnam veterans who suffer from 1 or more of the prescribed conditions (chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, soft tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and chloracne):

  • spouses or partners (including former spouses or partners) of Vietnam veterans who appear to have died because of, and have not received an ex gratia payment because they suffered from, 1 or more of the prescribed conditions:

  • people who are natural children of Vietnam veterans and who, as at 6 December 2006, suffered from 1 or more of the 5 accepted conditions (spina bifida, a cleft lip, a cleft palate, acute myeloid leukaemia, and adrenal gland cancer):

  • the immediate families of people who are the natural children of Vietnam veterans, and who appear to have died because of 1 or more of the 5 accepted conditions (even if those children received an ex gratia payment because they suffered from 1 or more of those conditions).

The exempted payments are also—

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 26 April 2007.

Eprint notes
1 General

This is an eprint of the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2007 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

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

Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203): regulation 20