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(a) The date on which the applicant made an application for them;

(b) the date on which the specified benefit commences;

(c) 19 April 2011.

11. Ending of payments

Individual support payments continue for so long as the applicant continues to receive a specified benefit until the close of the day that is six weeks after the day on which they commenced.

Amendment to Direction in Relation to Special Benefit

12. Amendment to Direction in Relation to Special Benefit

Clause 13 amends the Direction in relation to Special Benefit given on 10 February 1999.²

13. Definitions

Paragraph (f)(i) of the definition of chargeable income in clause 2.1 is amended by omitting

"the Care Supplement Programme"

and substituting

"the Individual Support Payments Programme".

Explanatory Note

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

This welfare programme under the Social Security Act 1964 ("the Act") provides short-term special assistance to certain people who reside in Canterbury, have lost employment or self-employment arising from the 22 February aftershock of the Canterbury earthquake, and are receiving a specified social security benefit. The assistance, called individual support payments, is additional to the amount of benefit and provides $\$50.00 a week for a single person, and $\$80.00 a week plus $\$10.00 for each dependent child up to a maximum of $\$110.00 a week for a sole parent or a person who is married, in a civil union or in a de facto relationship. It must be applied for no later than six weeks after 18 April 2011 and is provided for a maximum of six weeks from the date on which the payments commenced on or after 19 April 2011. Only one spouse or partner of a couple is eligible for the payments.

Clause 13 amends the Ministerial Direction in Relation to Special Benefit under the Act so that individual support payments under the programme are not counted as chargeable income. It also omits an obsolete reference to a revoked welfare programme.

Annotation of Notes

1New Zealand Gazette, 10 March 2011, No. 26, page 773

2New Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, No. 193, page 4599
Amended New Zealand Gazette, 24 February 2005, No. 41, page 1056

The Treasury

Earthquake Commission Act 1993

Ministerial Direction to the Earthquake Commission

Pursuant to section 12 of the Earthquake Commission Act 1993:

1. This direction comes into effect immediately upon signing, and applies from 12.51pm on 22 February 2011 up to and including 30 April 2011.

2. The Earthquake Commission ("the Commission") shall perform the following additional function:

(a) To carry out, so far as is reasonably practicable and to the extent not already covered by the Commission’s existing functions under the Earthquake Commission Act 1993 ("the Act"):

(i) inspections of residential premises; and

(ii) emergency works to repair damage to dangerous or insecure residential premises arising from the Canterbury earthquake event on 22 February 2011 and aftershocks or subsequent earthquakes.

3. For these purposes:

(a) residential premises means residential premises (whether or not the residential premises have EQC cover under the Act);

(b) dangerous or insecure residential premises means residential premises which, in the opinion of the Commission:

(i) are likely to cause injury or death (whether by collapse or otherwise);

(ii) are likely to be seriously injurious to health because they are in a state of disrepair;

(iii) are likely to cause damage to other property (whether by collapse or otherwise);

(iv) have insufficient or defective provision against moisture penetration so as to give rise to the risk of water ingress into the premises or into any adjoining premises; or

(v) are not secured against unauthorised entry.

Dated this 23rd day of March 2011.

HON GERARD ANTHONY BROWNLEE, Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery.

Transport

Civil Aviation Act 1990

State Sector Act 1988

Notice of Variation of an Open Aviation Market Licence

Pursuant to section 87X(4) of the Civil Aviation Act 1990, sections 41(1) and 42 of the State Sector Act 1988, and to a delegation from the Secretary for Transport dated 6 November 2007, notice is given that, having received an application from Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi, Martin Matthews, Secretary for Transport in the Ministry of Transport, has varied the airline’s open aviation market licence authorising it to carry on scheduled code-share services over the route Abu Dhabi, via points in China, to points in New Zealand, with the China–New Zealand sectors to be performed as the marketing carrier in a code-share arrangement with a carrier with the necessary traffic rights.

This variation took effect on 5 April 2011.

Signed at Wellington this 11th day of April 2011.

JOHN WILLIAM MACILREE, Principal Adviser, Aviation, Ministry of Transport.