This instrument is made under section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964 by the Minister for Social Development.

Instrument

1. Title
   This instrument is the Families Package (Transitional Assistance) Amendment 2018.
2. Commencement
   This instrument comes into force on the 28th day after it is published in the New Zealand Gazette.
3. Principal programme
   This instrument amends the Families Package (Transitional Assistance) Programme¹ (as established and approved on 12 February 2018) (“principal programme”).
4. Clause 4 amended (Interpretation)
   1. In clause 4(1), definition of net income, delete “and winter energy payment”.
   2. In clause 4(1), definition of specified payment, paragraph (j), revoke.
   3. In clause 4(1), definition of winter energy payment, revoke.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of April 2018.

Hon CARMEL SEPULONI, Minister for Social Development.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This instrument amends the Families Package (Transitional Assistance) Programme under the Social Security Act 1964. It removes references to the winter energy payment so that the payment is not taken into consideration in assessing a person’s entitlement to or rate of transitional assistance.

1. New Zealand Gazette, 15 February 2018, Notice No. 2018-go692.