Section 369 — Social Security Act 2018: Preferred suppliers: paying them disability allowance: exception if total benefit payments less than amount required

369 Preferred suppliers: paying them disability allowance: exception if total benefit payments less than amount required (1) This section applies if— (a) a preferred supplier is required under section 368(4)(a) to be paid, on a pay day, an amount that is all or the specified part of a disability allowance granted under section 85 to a person in respect of the supply of the goods or services; and (b) the person’s net total benefit payments due to be paid on that pay day (after deducting any reduction or deduction required to be made from the person’s benefit payments for another purpose (for example, under an attachment order or a deduction notice)) are less than the amount required to pay the preferred supplier on that pay day. (2) MSD— (a) is not required by section 368(4)(a) to pay to the preferred supplier on the pay day referred to in subsection (1) of this section all, or the specified part, of the person’s disability allowance due on that pay day; and (b) may pay the amount due to the preferred supplier on 1 or more later pay days from amounts of disability allowance or other benefit payments due to the person on those 1 or more later pay days. (3) Non-payment, or deferred payment, under this section does not reduce any amounts due to the preferred supplier from the person under, or make MSD or the Crown liable for breaching, the person’s contract of purchase. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 69C(7BB), (7BC)