New Zealand Gazette – 2006 – No. 53

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✨ Social Security Legislation Amendments



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 53

8 JUNE 2006

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Social Development

Social Security Act 1964

Instrument Amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No. 2) 2006

Pursuant to sections 5 and 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment, by this instrument, makes the following amendments to the directions and welfare programmes set out in the Schedule.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of May 2006.

DAVID BENSON-POPE, Minister for Social Development and Employment.

Instrument

  1. Title—This instrument is the Instrument amending ministerial directions and welfare programmes (No. 2) 2006.

  2. Commencement—This instrument comes into effect on 9 June 2006.

  3. Amendments relating to recognition of civil unions—The directions and welfare programmes set out in the Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the Schedule.

Schedule

Clause 3

Directions and welfare programmes amended

Assistance to Live Organ Donors Direction (given on 18 January 2005 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 3 February 2005, No. 32, page 774)

Clause D3

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause D9

Insert in the heading after “spouses” — “or partners”.

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Direction on Advance Payment of Benefits (given on 25 May 1999 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 24 June 1999, No. 75, page 1687)

Clause 1.1

Insert in paragraph (b) of the definition of beneficiary, after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.

Insert in the definition of cash assets, after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.

Insert in paragraph (b) of the definition of immediate needs, after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause 2.2 (a)

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause 2.3

Insert after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.

Clause 2.3 (a) (i)

Omit “an unmarried” and substitute “a single”.

Clause 2.3 (a) (ii)

Omit “married person” and substitute “person who is married or in a civil union”.

Clause 4.2

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause 6.2 (a)

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause 6.3 (c)

Insert after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.

Clause 7.3.2

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Direction in Relation to Emergency Benefit and Benefits on Ground of Hardship (given on 6 October 1998 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 15 October 1998, No. 172, page 4120)

Clause 1

Insert in the definition of cash assets, after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.

Clause 2 (a) (i)

Omit “unmarried” and substitute “single”.

Clause 2 (a) (ii)

Omit “married or is unmarried” and substitute “married or in a civil union, or is single”.

Clause 2 (b)

Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.

Clause 3 (a) (i)

Omit “unmarried” and substitute “single”.



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🏥 Amendment to Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
15 May 2006
Social Security Act 1964, Ministerial Directions, Welfare Programmes, Civil Unions, Live Organ Donors, Emergency Benefit, Hardship
  • DAVID BENSON-POPE, Minister for Social Development and Employment