Contents
Part 1 · Preliminary
1Name#
This instrument is the Social Security (Administration) (Job Search Efforts) Determination 2026.
2 Commencement#
(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3Authority#
This instrument is made under subsection 42AC(3) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.
4Schedules#
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
5Definitions#
In this instrument:
job search: a person makes a job search if the person makes contact (whether by telephone, in writing or in person) with another person or a body in relation to, and for the purposes of, obtaining paid work with that other person or body:
(a)whether or not the contact is in relation to particular paid work; and
(b)whether or not the person or body has advertised any paid work.
suitable work for a person means paid work that is not unsuitable to be done by the person.
Note: Section 40X of the Act sets out when particular paid work is unsuitable to be done by a person.
Part 2
6 How to work out whether a person has undertaken adequate job search efforts#
(1)For the purposes of paragraph 42AC(1)(e) and subsection 42AC(2) of the Act, to work out whether a person has undertaken adequate job search efforts in relation to a particular period, the Secretary:
(a)must assess whether, during that period, the person made the number of job searches that the person was required to make; and
(b)if the person made the required number of job searches—may do any of the following:
(i)assess the quality of the job searches made by the person in relation to that period;
(ii)consider any other matter that the Secretary considers relevant.
(2)The Secretary may have regard to the following matters for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(i) in relation to the job searches made by the person in relation to the period:
(a)whether they were made in good faith;
(b)whether they were in relation to a variety of levels of seniority or remuneration that were suitable work for the person;
(c)whether they were in a variety of fields and occupations, including fields and occupations other than those in which the person has qualifications or experience, if that work is suitable work for the person;
(d)whether they were made using a variety of methods.
Schedule 1 · Repeals
Social Security (Administration) (Job Search Efforts) Determination 2018#
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.
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