NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 172

1999:
Winners will be notified by certified mail;

(3) New Zealand winners shall not be subject to any extra cost when they claim their prizes;

(4) The chance of a New Zealand participant winning a prize shall be equal to that of an overseas participant.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of October 1998.

JACK ELDER, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Labour

Public Finance Act 1989

Notice of Publication of Annual Report—Department of Labour

The Department of Labour hereby gives notice that, pursuant to section 39 (2A) of the Public Finance Act 1989, it has published its annual report for the year ended 30 June 1998, containing its financial statements, audit report and management responsibility statements.

Dated this 13th day of October 1998.

J. M. CHETWIN, Secretary of Labour.

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Prime Minister and Cabinet

Public Finance Act 1989

Notice of Publication of a Report in Relation to Outputs Supplied to the Crown

Pursuant to Section 32A of the Public Finance Act 1989

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet hereby gives notice that it has published the report; Vote Prime Minister and Cabinet, Outputs Supplied by other parties, for the year ended 30 June 1998. The report contains financial statements and the statement of service performance for the same period.

Dated this 15th day of October 1998.

RIGHT HON. JENNY SHIPLEY, Prime Minister.

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Notice of Publication of Annual Report

Pursuant to Section 39 of the Public Finance Act 1989 and Section 30 of the State Sector Act 1988

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet hereby gives notice that it has published its annual report for the year ended 30 June 1998 containing its financial statements, statement of service performance, audit report and statement of responsibility for the same period.

Dated this 15th day of October 1998.

RIGHT HON. JENNY SHIPLEY, Prime Minister.

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Social Services, Work and Income

Social Security Act 1964

Direction in Relation to Emergency Benefit and Community Wage

To: The Chief Executive, Department of Work and Income.

Pursuant to section 5 of the Social Security Act 1964, I, Roger Morrison Sowry, Minister of Social Services, Work and Income, give the following direction to take effect on 8 October 1998. I revoke effective on that date all previous ministerial directions under that section concerning the grant of emergency benefits under that Act.

Dated this 6th day of October 1998.

Hon. ROGER SOWRY, Minister of Social Services, Work and Income.

Analysis

1. Definitions
2. Hardship: general criteria
3. Hardship: full-time students
4. Hardship: full-time students: further criteria
5. Emergency benefits for people aged 16 or 17 attending social rehabilitation programmes
6. Emergency benefits for people aged 16 or 17 who are pregnant or sole parents
7. Rates of emergency benefit for certain people who are 16 or 17
8. Emergency benefits for care of patients
9. Patient’s income defined
10. Cash assets may be disregarded in exceptional circumstances
11. General discretion

Direction

Grants of Emergency Benefits, and Grants of Community Wage on the Ground of Hardship

This direction applies when you are considering whether to grant—

(a) An emergency benefit under section 61 of the Act; or
(b) A community wage under section 89 of the Act pursuant to section 90 of the Act—

on and after 8 October 1998, and also applies when you are, after that date, reviewing an emergency benefit (whether granted before or after that date), or a community wage so granted. Without limiting the discretion available to you under section 61 or section 90 of the Act, you must have regard to the following matters:

1. Definitions

In this direction, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1964;
“Cash assets”, in relation to any person, means the assets of that person and his or her spouse (if any) that can be readily converted into cash and include—

(a) Shares, stocks, debentures, bonus bonds, and other bonds;
(b) Bank accounts, including fixed and term deposits with any bank, friendly society, credit union, or building society;
(c) Money invested with or lent to any bank or other financial institution;