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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 74

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of June 2007.

benefit from a fortnightly pay day to a weekly
pay day, the chief executive may make one
non-recoverable grant of not more than the amount
in clause 16A.2 to a beneficiary receiving that
benefit as compensation for any loss incurred by
the beneficiary as a result of the change.

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

1. Title—This amendment is the Employment Transition
   Programme Amendment 2007.

16A.2 The amount referred to in clause 16A.1 is the
higher of the following amounts:
(a) the total of—

2. Commencement—This amendment comes into effect
   on the day after the date on which it is published in the
   New Zealand Gazette.

(i) the weekly amount of the specified benefit
payable to the beneficiary:
(ii) the weekly amount of any other benefit or
periodic payment (not being an excluded
payment) that is payable to the beneficiary
together with the specified benefit:

3. Programme amended—This amendment amends the
   Employment Transition Programme.
4. Interpretation—The definition of expiry date in clause
   4(1) is revoked.

(b) if the department has, before the selected day,
made an estimate of the amount referred in
paragraph (a) and, on the basis of that estimate,
has notified the beneficiary in writing of the
amount of compensation he or she will receive,
the notified amount.

5. Employment transition assistance—Clause 6(1)(b) is
   revoked and the following substituted:
   “(b) applies for assistance under this programme within
   28 days after the cancellation of the benefit, if the
   benefit was cancelled on or after 1 July 2005.”
6. Period of grant of assistance—Clause 8(3) is revoked.

16A.3 In calculating the amount referred to in clause
16A.2(a), the chief executive must—

7. Expiry—Clause 10 is revoked.

(a) calculate it in relation to the beneficiary’s
circumstances known to the department on the
selected day; and

Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to
explain its general effect.
This amendment, which comes into effect on the day after the
date on which it is published in the New Zealand Gazette,
removes the expiry date provisions of the Employment
Transition Programme.
*New Zealand Gazette, 30 June 2005, No. 100, page 2383

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(b) disregard any deduction from any benefit under
section 86(1)(b) of the Act or any deduction
notice.
16A.4 Nothing in Part 2 prevents a grant being made
under this clause.
16A.5 In this clause, —
excluded payment means any payment under
the Social Security (Working for Families—
Transitional Supplement) Regulations 2004

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selected day means a day (being a day in the week
before the change in pay day takes effect) selected
by the chief executive in relation to a particular
beneficiary or beneficiaries of a stated kind or
description

Special Needs Grants Amendment 2007
Pursuant to section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act
1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment
makes the following amendment to the Special Needs
Grants Programme (as established and approved on
18 December 1998*).

specified benefit means any of the following
benefits:

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of June 2007.

(a) a domestic purposes benefit:

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

(b) the emergency benefit known as emergency
maintenance allowance:

(c) an invalid’s benefit:

Amendment

(d) an orphan’s benefit:

1. Title—This amendment is the Special Needs Grants
   Amendment 2007.

(e) an unsupported child’s benefit:

2. Commencement—This amendment comes into effect
   on 2 July 2007.
3. Programme amended—This amendment amends the
   Special Needs Grants Programme.
4. Beneficiaries transferring between benefits—Clause
   16.3 is revoked.
5. New clause inserted—The following clause is inserted
   after clause 16:
   “16A Transfer compensation grants
   16A.1 Where, after 1 July 2007, the chief executive
   determines to change the pay day of a specified

(f) a widow’s benefit.”

Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the amendment but is intended to
indicate its general effect.
This amendment to the Special Needs Grants Programme,
which comes into effect on 2 July 2007, provides for the
payment of one non-recoverable grant as compensation for
any loss incurred by a beneficiary as a result of the transfer
from a fortnightly pay day to a weekly pay day.
*New Zealand Gazette, 28 January 1999, No. 8, page 202
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