✨ Amendment to Welfare Programmes
8 JUNE 2006
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 53
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Clause 17.1.1
Insert after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.
Clause 17.1.3 (e)
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Clause 17.3.1
Omit “an unmarried” and substitute “a single”.
Clause 17.4.1 (a)
Omit “married person” and substitute “person who is married or in a civil union”.
Clause 17.4.1 (a) (i)
Omit “unmarried” and substitute “single”.
Clause 17.4.1 (b)
Omit “an unmarried” and substitute “a single”.
Clause 17A.1.3
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Clause 17A.2.5
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Clause 18.4
Insert in the definition of cash assets, after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.
Clause 18.5
Omit the definition of income and substitute:
“income, in relation to a person who is married or in a civil union, includes the income of the person’s spouse or partner”.
Clause 18.8
Omit “married person” in the three places it appears and substitute “person who is married or in a civil union”.
Omit “an unmarried” and substitute “a single”.
Special Needs (Travel Costs for Visits to Designated Doctors) Programme (as established and approved on 9 October 1995)
Clause 6.3
Omit “unmarried” and substitute “single”.
Student Allowance Transfer Grant Programme (as established and approved on 23 July 2002 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 8 August 2002, No. 90, page 2435)
Clause 4 (1)
Omit the definition of dependent spouse and substitute:
“dependent spouse or partner, in relation to an applicant, means a spouse or partner of the applicant:
(a) who is not entitled to a working-age benefit in his or her own right; and
(b) whose weekly income, when combined with the applicant’s weekly income, is not more than the combined weekly income amount set out in clause 1 (1) of Schedule 2 of the regulations”.
Clause 6 (1)
Insert after “spouse” in both places it appears — “or partner”.
Clause 6 (2) (a)
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Clause 7 (1)
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Clause 7 (2)
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Work Start Grant Programme (as established and approved on 29 June 1999 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 8 July 1999, No. 81, page 1890)
Clause 2.1
Insert in the definition of cash assets, after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Omit paragraph (a) of the definition of immediate family and substitute:
“(a) in the case of a person who is married or in a civil union, that person and his or her spouse or partner and their dependent children (if any); and”.
Clause 7.2 (a)
Insert after “spouse” — “or partner”.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This instrument, which comes into effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 to treat people in civil unions in the same way as people in marriages.
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