Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 26

  (1)   If a post - 75 member of the pension bonus scheme has a post - 75 work period, the lodgment period for a claim by the person for pension bonus is the period of 13 weeks beginning at the end of the period nominated in the claim as the person's post - 75 work period.

  (2)   For the purposes of this section, a post - 75 member of the pension bonus scheme has a post - 75 work period if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

  (a)   the person's claim for pension bonus nominates a particular period as the person's post - 75 work period;

  (b)   the nominated period begins immediately after the end of the person's last bonus period;

  (c)   if it were assumed that the person had been an accruing member of the pension bonus scheme throughout each test period that is applicable to the person, the person would have passed the work test for each test period.

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   (2), the test period or test periods applicable to a person are worked out as follows:

  (a)   identify the extended period , which is that part of the nominated period when the person was neither:

  (i)   subject to a compensation preclusion period or a carer preclusion period; nor

  (ii)   covered by a declaration under section   92Q of the 1991 Act;

  (b)   if the extended period is 365 days or less--the extended period is the only test period;

  (c)   if the extended period is longer than 365 days--each of the following periods is a test period:

  (i)   the full - year period beginning at the start of the extended period;

  (ii)   if 2 or more succeeding full - year periods are included in the extended period--each of those full - year periods;

  (iii)   the period (if any) consisting of the remainder of the extended period.

  (4)   In addition to its effect apart from this subsection, section   93B of the 1991 Act also has the effect it would have if each reference in paragraph   93B(1)(a), (2)(a), (3)(a) or (4)(a) to an accruing member of the pension bonus scheme were a reference to a post - 75 member of the scheme.