Section 132 — Social Security Act 1991: Saving—ABSTUDY recipients

(1) If, immediately before 1 January 2001, a person was receiving: (a) a relevant pension; and (b) a payment under a provision of the ABSTUDY Scheme made on the basis that the person was a full-time student; this clause applies to the person. (2) In spite of the amendments of this Act made by Schedule 1 to the Family and Community Services (2000 Budget and Related Measures) Act 2000: (a) the person does not cease to be qualified for the relevant pension by reason only of those amendments; and (b) if the person continues, on and after 1 January 2001, to receive the same payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme, that payment (except where it is a payment of a pensioner education supplement) is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be income paid to, or on behalf of, the person. (3) In this clause: relevant pension means: (a) age pension; or (b) bereavement allowance; or (c) carer payment; or (d) disability support pension; or (e) pension PP (single); or (f) widow B pension; or (g) wife pension.