Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010

  • revoked
  • Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010: 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

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010

(SR 2010/485)

Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010: revoked, on 1 April 2019, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/203).

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 20th day of December 2010

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Social Development.

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.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on the day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Principal regulations amended

These regulations amend the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Regulations 2005.

4 Interpretation

Regulation 3(1) is amended by inserting the following definition after the definition of Act:

Canterbury earthquake means the earthquake that occurred on 4 September 2010 in Canterbury, and includes all of its aftershocks

5 Assets exempt from means assessment

Regulation 10(1) is amended by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (la):

(lb)

any money paid to a person by the Earthquake Commission continued in existence by section 4(1) of the Earthquake Commission Act 1993, or by an insurance company,—

(i)

in respect of the destruction of or any damage to any property caused by the Canterbury earthquake; or

(ii)

for or towards the costs of renting accommodation in place of residential premises destroyed or made uninhabitable by the Canterbury earthquake:

Rebecca Kitteridge,
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 the day after notification in the Gazette, amend the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Regulations 2005 so that money is exempt from means assessment if it has been paid to a person by the Earthquake Commission or an insurance company—

  • in respect of the destruction of or any damage to any property caused by the Canterbury earthquake; or

  • for or towards the costs of renting accommodation in place of residential premises destroyed or made uninhabitable by the Canterbury earthquake.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 23 December 2010.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Regulations (No 5) 2010 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

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