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One-parent family payment — amendments.
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4.— (1) Section 172(1) of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by inserting the following definition:
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“ ‘relevant age’ means—
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(a) 16 years where a payment under Chapter 8A of Part 3 is being made in respect of a child, and
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(b) in any other case—
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(i) 12 years in respect of any claim for one-parent family payment relating to any day during the period beginning on 3 May 2012 and expiring on 2 January 2013,
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(ii) 10 years in respect of any claim for one-parent family payment relating to any day during the period beginning on 3 January 2013 and expiring on 1 January 2014, and
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(iii) 7 years in respect of any claim for one-parent family payment relating to any day occurring on or after 2 January 2014;”,
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and
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(b) in the definition of “relevant child” (inserted by section 9 of the Act of 2011), by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (c):
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“(c) has not attained the relevant age;”.
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(2) This section comes into operation on 3 May 2012.
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