Section 372 — Social Security Act 2018: Preferred suppliers: transitional or savings provisions directions

372 Preferred suppliers: transitional or savings provisions directions (1) The Minister may from time to time give to MSD under this section written directions that set out transitional or savings provisions that apply— (a) to persons receiving assistance under this Act in respect of goods or services that would be affected by a contract with a preferred supplier in respect of those goods or services; and (b) at, or within a specified period after, the time or times when a contract under section 366 (including, without limitation, one that varies or replaces all or any of an earlier contract of that kind) takes effect. (2) A direction given under this section— (a) overrides sections 347 , 367(2)(b) , and 368 to 370 ; and (b) must be complied with by MSD; and (c) must, as soon as practicable after it is given, be— (i) published on an Internet site administered by or on behalf of MSD; and (ii) notified in the Gazette ; and (d) must, each time it is amended without also being replaced, also as soon as practicable after it is amended, be published— (i) on an Internet site administered by or on behalf of MSD; and (ii) current as at a stated date; and (iii) incorporating amendments up to that date; and (e) is not a legislative instrument, but is a disallowable instrument, for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2012 , and must be presented to the House of Representatives under section 41 of that Act. (3) A notification in the Gazette for the purpose of subsection (2)(c)(ii) does not have to include the text of the direction. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 125AA(5), (6)