Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Self-Determination Consequential Amendments) Act 1984 No. 46 of 1984 - SECT 26

26. Where, as a result of the amendments made to the Social Security Act 1947
by this Part-

   (a)  a person becomes qualified or eligible to receive a pension, benefit
        or allowance under that Act before 6 July 1984; and

   (b)  the person makes a claim for a pension, benefit or allowance after the
        person became qualified or eligible to receive that pension, benefit
        or allowance but before 6 July 1984, the Director-General of Social
        Security may determine that the claim shall be taken, for the purposes
        of that Act, to have been lodged on the day on which the person became
        so qualified or eligible.