Section 42AM — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Reconnection requirements for mutual obligation failures and work refusal failures

(1) The Secretary must impose a requirement (the reconnection requirement) on a person if the Secretary determines under section 42AF or 42AG that a participation payment is not payable to the person for a period. (2) The Secretary must notify the person, in any way the Secretary considers appropriate, of: (a) the reconnection requirement; and (b) the effect of not complying with the reconnection requirement. (3) The Secretary must determine that the person’s participation payment is cancelled if: (a) the Secretary does not determine an earlier day for the purposes of ending the person’s payment suspension period under paragraph 42AL(3)(b); and (b) the person fails to comply with the reconnection requirement within 4 weeks after it is notified under subsection (2) of this section. (4) If the Secretary makes a determination under subsection (3), the participation payment is cancelled at the end of the 4 weeks mentioned in paragraph (3)(b).