Pursuant to section 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment establishes and approves the following amendment to the Home Help Programme (as established and approved on
6 May 2004).
Dated at Wellington this 21st day of June 2005.
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 Home Help Amendment 2005.
(2) In this amendment, the Home Help Programme is called “the programme”.
2. Commencement—(1) This amendment, except for clause 4, comes into effect on 1 July 2005.
(2) Clause 4 comes into effect on 1 April 2007.
3. Schedule amended—The Schedule of the programme is amended by revoking clause 1, and substituting the following clauses:
“1 The hourly rate that may be paid for a home helper is—
(a) $10; plus
(b) an additional 6% of the rate in paragraph (a) for holiday pay.
“1A If the minimum wage rate for an adult worker paid by the hour prescribed by Order in Council under the Minimum Wage Act 1983 increases from the rate in force on 1 April 2005, the rate in paragraph (a) of clause 1 must be considered to be increased by the same proportion as that minimum wage rate has increased, with effect on,—
(a) except as provided in paragraph (b), the 1 April following the date on which the minimum wage rate increase comes into force; or
(b) if the minimum wage rate increase comes into force on 1 April in a year, that 1 April.”
4. Schedule amended—Clause 1 of the Schedule of the programme (as substituted by clause 3) is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the expression “6%”, and substituting the expression “8%”.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This amendment to the Home Help Programme:
? changes, on and from 1 July 2005, the hourly rate that may be paid to a home helper from a maximum of $10.14 including holiday pay to a uniform rate of $10.00 plus an additional 6% for holiday pay;
? provides for the $10.00 rate to be indexed, on 1 April each year, to increases in the minimum wage rate payable to an adult worker paid by the hour from that applying on 1 April 2005; and
? increases, on 1 April 2007, the additional 6% for holiday pay to an additional 8%.