Amendment 2013
Pursuant to section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development makes the following instrument.
I n s t r u m e n t
1. Title-This instrument is the Recoverable Assistance Programme Amendment 2013.
2. Commencement-This instrument comes into effect on the day after it is made.
3. Principal programme-This instrument amends the Recoverable Assistance Programme (as established and approved on 15 February 1999)1 (the principal programme).
4. Clause 3 amended (Definitions)-In clause 3.1, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:
"preferred supplier means a person, body, or organisation with whom the chief executive has,
under section 125AA(3) of the Act, contracted for
the supply of goods and services for purchase by beneficiaries or other persons."
5. Clause 11.9 amended (Emergency Household Needs)-Replace clause 11.9.2(b) with:
"(b) if section 124(1BA) of the Act applies to
the applicant, the least amount required by the applicant to purchase one or more of a washing machine, combined refrigerator-freezer, freezer, or refrigerator under the contract with the preferred supplier under section 125AA(3)."
Dated at Wellington this 24th day of September 2013.
HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This instrument, which comes into effect on the day after it is made, amends the Recoverable Assistance Programme under the Social Security Act 1964 ("the Act") to recognise that certain items for which recoverable assistance is available for emergency household needs may be supplied by a preferred supplier with whom the Ministry has entered into a contract under section 125AA of the Act.
1New Zealand Gazette, 25 February 1999, No. 23, page 567