Pursuant to section 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment makes the following amendment to the Pathways Payment Programme (as established and approved on 30 June 2002).
Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 2004.
STEVE MAHAREY, Minister for Social Development and Employment.
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A m e n d m e n t
1. Title-(1) This amendment is the Pathways Payment Amendment 2004.
(2) In this amendment, the Pathways Payment Programme is called "the programme".
2. Commencement-This amendment comes into effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
3. Interpretation-Clause 4 (1) of the programme is amended by inserting, after the definition of bridging finance, the following definition:
"employment" means paid employment, but does not include:
"(a) employment as a sex worker or as an operator of a business of prostitution (as those terms are defined in the Prostitution Reform Act 2003); or
"(b) employment in any other occupation of a kind that provides, or directly facilitates the provision of, services:
"(i) for the sexual gratification of one or more other persons; and
"(ii) that are provided for payment or other reward (irrespective of whether the reward is given to the person providing the services or another person)."
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Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This amendment to the Pathways Payment Programme, which takes effect on the day after its publication in the
New Zealand Gazette, prevents a pathways payment being made for employment in providing sex services.