Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEFENCE FORCE (PAPUA NEW GUINEA) RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1973 No. 86 of 1973 - SECT 46

46. (1) The Board may, by notice in writing to a person to whom a pension,
being invalidity benefit, is being paid, require that person to submit himself
for medical examination by a legally qualified medical practitioner at a time
and place specified in the notice.

(2) A notice to a person under sub-section (1) may be given by delivering it
to him personally or by sending it by post addressed to him at his address
last-known to the Board.

(3) Where a person fails to comply with a notice given to him under this
section and does not satisfy the Board that there was reasonable excuse for
the failure, the Board may suspend the person's pension.

(4) Where the Board suspends a person's pension under this section, his
pension is not payable in respect of the period commencing on the day on which
he was required by the notice to submit himself for examination and ending on
the day immediately preceding the day on which he submits himself for medical
examination at a time and place approved by the Board.

(5) The cost of any medical examination carried out for the purposes of this
section, including reasonable expenditure incurred in travelling to and from
the place of the examination, shall be treated as part of the cost of the
administration of this Act.