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StatuteSocial Security (Administration) Act 1999

Section 106B — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Automatic cancellation

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(1) Subject to subsection (3), if: (a) a section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or a listed automatic issue health care card has been granted to a person; and (b) in order to be qualified for the card, the person must be receiving, or be qualified for, a particular social security pension or benefit; and (c) the pension or benefit is cancelled; the section 1061ZA pensioner concession card or listed automatic issue health care card, as the case may be, is, by force of this section, cancelled. (2) If: (a) a health care card has been granted to a person; and (b) the person was qualified for the card under subsection 1061ZK(4) of the 1991 Act; and (c) the person ceases to be qualified under that subsection; the health care card is, by force of this section, cancelled. (3) Subsection (1) does not have effect in a case in which the Secretary determines in writing that he or she is satisfied that the person concerned is likely to be granted a social security pension or benefit before it is reasonably practicable to take steps to give effect to the cancellation of the card. (4) In this section: listed automatic issue health care card means an automatic issue health care card that is granted: (a) to a person who receives one of the following social security payments: (ii) jobseeker payment; (iv) special benefit; (vi) benefit PP (partnered); or (b) to a person who is receiving a youth allowance and who, at the time when a determination was made to grant the person the youth allowance: (i) was not undertaking full-time study; and (ii) was not a new apprentice. section 1061ZA pensioner concession card means a pensioner concession card granted to a person who is qualified for the card under section 1061ZA of the 1991 Act (except under subsection (1B) of that section).

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