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Welfare Amendment Act 2019

COOK ISLANDS

Welfare Amendment Act 2019

No. 3, 2019

Contents

1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Application
4 Principal Act amended
5 Section 4 amended (Child benefit)
6 Section 7 amended (Period for which child benefit payable)
7 Section 19 amended (Interpretation)
8 Section 27 amended (Amount of advances)
9 Validations

An Act to amend the Welfare Act 1989.

The Parliament of the Cook Islands enacts as follows—

1. Title

This Act is the Welfare Amendment Bill 2019.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into force, or is deemed to have come into force, as the case requires, on 1 July 2019.

3. Application

For all purposes, this Act applies on and after 1 July 2019 and despite section 2 (which relates to commencement) any question of law must be decided accordingly.

4. Principal Act amended

This Act amends the Welfare Act 1989 (the principal Act).

5. Section 4 amended (Child benefit)

In section 4(1), replace “fourteen years” with “16 years”.

6. Section 7 amended (Period for which child benefit payable)

In section 7(1) and (4), replace “fourteen years” with “16 years”.

7. Section 19 amended (Interpretation)

(1) In section 19(1), definition of capitalised value, replace “10 years” with “16 years”.
(2) In section 19(1), definition of child benefit, replace “10 years” with “16 years”.

8. Section 27 amended (Amount of advances)

In section 27(2), replace “14 years” with “16 years”.

9. Validations

For all purposes, the references in the definitions of capitalised value and

child benefit in section 19(1) to “10 years” must be read as if––

(a) during the period commencing on 1 January 2006 and ending with the expiry of 30 September 2018, they were references to “12 years”; and
(b) in the period beginning on 1 October 2018 and expiring on the commencement of this Act, they were references to “14 years”.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Parliament—2020.