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(e) building society shares;
(f) mortgage investments and other long-term loans;
(g) bills of exchange or promissory notes;
(h) the applicant’s share in any partnership;
but do not include:

(i) the motor vehicle principally used by the person for
his or her personal use;

(j) a caravan, boat, or other vehicle:
(i) the net equity in which is less than $2,000; or
(ii) which is used by the person or a member of his
or her family for day to day accommodation;

(k) the personal effects of the person;

dependent spouse, in relation to an applicant, means a
spouse who is not entitled to a working-age benefit in his
or her own right and whose weekly income, when
combined with the weekly income of the applicant, is not
more than the combined weekly income limit set out in
Table 1 of Schedule 2 of the Regulations;

Regulations means the Student Allowances Regulations
1998 (SR 1998/277);

specified period, in relation to a student allowance,
means the period for which the allowance is payable,
ending on the earliest of the following dates:

(a) the date the student awarded it ceases to be enrolled
in a recognised course of study;
(b) the date determined in accordance with Regulation
23 of the Regulations;
(c) where the allowance is suspended under Regulation
34 or Regulation 35 of the Regulations, the date of
that suspension;

student allowance means a basic grant or an independent
circumstances grant under the Regulations;

transfer grant means the special assistance under clause
6 of this programme;

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,
unless the context otherwise requires, the meanings so
defined.

5. Application of Social Security Act 1964—(1) Sections
   12, 62, 63, 63A, 64, 66A, 66B, 74A, 76, 81, 82, 84 and 86J of
   the Act apply to this programme and to an applicant as if a
   transfer grant were a benefit.\n
   (2) Nothing in subclause (1) limits the application of any
   other provision of the Act.

6. Transfer grants—(1) Subclause (2) applies to an
   applicant who:

(a) applies for a working-age benefit; and
(b) on the date he or she is entitled to that benefit, has a
dependent spouse or 1 or more dependent children;
and

(c) immediately before that date, is either:
(i) a person awarded a student allowance (other
than a person who has lost eligibility to that
allowance or a person whose allowance is
suspended under any of Regulations 28 to 31 of
the Regulations), whether or not that allowance
was payable because of income (a specified
student); or

(ii) the spouse of a specified student; and

(d) is applying for a working-age benefit because the
specified student will cease to receive that allowance
by reason that:

(i) he or she will no longer be a secondary student
or a tertiary student, as set out in Regulation 7 of
the Regulations; or

(ii) he or she will no longer be undertaking a course,
or course of study, at a tertiary provider or a
secondary school, as set out in Regulation 8 of
the Regulations; or

(iii) his or her allowance is to be suspended
under Regulation 34 or Regulation 35 of the
Regulations; or

(iv) the specified period will end under Regulation
23 of the Regulations; and

(e) applies for a transfer grant before or within 5 working
days after the specified period ends.

(2) The chief executive may grant a transfer grant to an
applicant to whom this subclause applies if the chief
executive is satisfied that:

(a) the applicant and the applicant’s dependent spouse
(if any) and dependent children (if any) are suffering
hardship; and

(b) the period that will elapse between the end of the
specified period and the date the working-age
benefit commences is 1 week or more.

(3) For the purpose of subclause (2) (a), the chief executive
may consider the persons referred to in that clause to be
suffering hardship if:

(a) their combined cash assets are not more than 4 times
the weekly rate (before abatement on account of
income) of an invalids benefit that would be payable
to the applicant and the applicant’s dependent
spouse (if any), if that benefit were otherwise
payable; and

(b) the applicant has no other means to support them.

7. Amount of transfer grant—(1) The amount of a
   transfer grant is the equivalent of the amount of the
   working-age benefit that would be payable to the applicant
   and the applicant’s dependent spouse (if any) in the first
   week of the period referred to in clause 6 (2) (b), if that
   benefit were otherwise payable in that week.

(2) If the applicant or the applicant’s dependent spouse
(if any) have received any other assistance under section
124 (1) (d) of the Act in respect of his, her or their ordinary
living expenses during that week, the amount of transfer
grant must be reduced by the amount of that assistance.

8. Grants non-recoverable—A transfer grant made under
   clause 6 is non-recoverable.

Explanatory note

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

This programme provides for transfer grants to be made to
students with dependants who are suffering hardship during
the transfer from student allowance to benefit.