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AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE COVER ACT 2015 - SECT 51

Department to give CSC information around time of medical discharge

  (1)   If a covered ADF member is about to be, or has been, medically discharged while under 60, the Department must, within 2 months before or after the discharge, give CSC any information the Department has about the member that is relevant to:

  (a)   classifying the member; or

  (b)   working out the rate of invalidity pension for the member after the discharge.

Note:   Sections   46 and 47 give the CSC powers to get information from a person to whom a benefit may be payable or to whom an invalidity pension is being paid.

  (2)   This section does not apply if section   31A applies to the member.

Note:   Under section   31A, a person is taken in certain circumstances to have been medically discharged even though he or she ceased to be a covered ADF member for a different reason.



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