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[ • ]Government bill · 2026 · Enacted

Social Security (Accident Compensation and Calculation of Weekly Income) Amendment Bill

Where it is in Parliament· last movement 2026-03-04

Introduction
First Reading
Select Committee
Second Reading
Committee of Whole House
Third Reading
Royal Assent
Enacted
What the official record says
This Act is the Social Security (Accident Compensation and Calculation of Weekly Income) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after Royal assent. However, comes into force on . This Act amends the Social Security Act 2018. Before section 198(1), insert: The purpose of this section is to require MSD, before a specified benefit payable to a person ( ) is paid, to reduce the rate of that specified benefit that would, but for this section, be payable to P, in order to prevent the situation that is the occurrence of both of the following: P receives, in respect of a period, the rate of the specified benefit that would, but for this section, be payable to P; and P or P’s spouse or partner receives, in respect of all or part of the same period, amounts of weekly loss of earnings c

Laws this bill changes

  • Social Security Act 2018
Plain English breakdown

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