11 JULY

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

2083

working-age benefit means any of the following benefits:

(a) An unemployment benefit.

(b) A sickness benefit.

(c) A domestic purposes benefit.

(d) An emergency benefit (other than an emergency benefit payable under section 17 (2) (c) of the New Zealand Superannuation Act 2001).

(e) An independent youth benefit.

(f) An invalids benefit.

(g) A transitional retirement benefit.

(h) A widows benefit.

(2) Terms otherwise defined in section 3 (1) of the Act have the meanings so defined.

5. Suspension of debt recovery for recipients of pathways payments and their spouses—(1) Subclause (2) applies to:

(a) any person (an applicant) who is granted a pathways payment; and

(b) the spouse of an applicant.

(2) For the period of 3 months after the date of cancellation of the working-age benefit in respect of which the pathways payment was granted, you should not take any action under section 86 or section 86A of the Act to recover a benefit debt from a person to whom this subclause applies.

(3) Subclause (2) does not apply if the applicant or the applicant’s spouse has again been granted a working-age benefit.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the direction, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This direction provides assistance to certain beneficiaries entering the work force by providing for suspension of recovery of their benefit debts for 3 months.

Part 3

Work Start Grant Amendment 2002

1. Title—(1) This amendment is the Work Start Grant Amendment 2002.

(2) In this amendment, the Work Start Grant Programme is called “the programme”.

2. Commencement—This amendment comes into effect on 1 July 2002.

3. Interpretation—Clause 2.1 of the programme is amended by inserting, after the definition of parents, the following definition:

“pathways payment means the special assistance under the Pathways Payment Programme approved under section 124 (1) (d) of the Act”

4. Ineligibility—Clause 6 of the programme is amended by adding the following subclause:

“6.3 An applicant who has been granted a pathways payment is not eligible for a grant for bridging finance in respect of the first 2 weeks of the period between the end of the benefit and the first payment of wages or salary.”

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This amendment is consequential to the Pathways Payment Programme, which provides assistance to certain beneficiaries entering the work force by making one-off payments to them equivalent to 2 weeks’ benefit. The amendment prevents double payments under the Work Start Grant Programme.

Treasury

Companies Act 1993

Notice of Disclaimer Under Section 325 of the Companies Act 1993

In the matter of section 325 of the Companies Act 1993, and in the matter of Hybrid Systems Limited

Take notice that I, Alan Esmond Bollard, Secretary to the Treasury, pursuant to section 325 of the Companies Act 1993, hereby disclaim for and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, all right, title and interest of Her Majesty the Queen in:

(a) Trade Mark number 255909 – EPAGE, in class 9

“communication apparatus; electronic and electrical equipment in this class including communication equipment and paging systems; data processing equipment and computers, surveying and signalling apparatus and instruments and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods including computer software; all being included in this class”, registered on 11 March 1997 with effect from 15 November 1995; and

(b) Trade Mark number 255910 – EPAGE, in class 38

“telecommunication and communication services”, registered on 11 March 1997 with effect from 15 November 1995;

being property formerly held by Hybrid Systems Limited, a company removed from the Companies Register on 26 June 2000, under section 318 (1) (b) of the Companies Act 1993, and formerly having its registered office at Auckland.

And I certify that the vesting of the said properties did not come to my notice until 12 November 2001.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of July 2002.

Signed by the Secretary to the Treasury, the said Dr Alan Esmond Bollard, for and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen in the presence of:

KIM HAILWOOD, Executive Assistant, Wellington.