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PART VI
Deserted Wife's Benefit
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Deserted wife's benefit (title to benefit).
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25.—(1) Section 100 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the insertion in subsection (1) after paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:
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“(bb) does not have an aggregate of reckonable income and reckonable earnings in excess of a prescribed amount in the last complete income tax year or in such subsequent period as a deciding officer or an appeals officer may consider appropriate,”, and
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(b) the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:
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“(2) The circumstances in which a woman is to be regarded for the purposes of this section as having been deserted by her husband shall be specified in regulations.”.
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(2) Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) shall not apply to any claim for deserted wife's benefit made before the commencement of this section.
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(3) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.
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