Senate debates
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
11:09 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
The bill, as the senator indicated, provides that a person may be exempt from income management in respect of either a specific Northern Territory area or from all relevant areas. Those provisions mean that, where it is clear that the person has little connection to a community, they can be excluded from the application of the income management at the time that it in fact applied to that community.
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