Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 97, 1984 - SECT 28

28. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-sections (6) and
(6A) and substituting the following sub-sections:

"(6) Where a claim in accordance with section 25 of the Repatriation Act for a
pension is granted, the Commission may, subject to this Act, approve payment
of the pension from and including a date not earlier than 3 months before the
date on which the claim for pension, in accordance with an approved form, was
received at an address of the Department.

"(6A) Where-

   (a)  a person makes a claim for a pension in writing, but otherwise than in
        accordance with a form approved for the purposes of section 25 of the
        Repatriation Act;

   (b)  the person subsequently makes a claim for the pension in accordance
        with a form so approved-

        (i)    at a time when he had not been notified by the Department that
               it would be necessary for him to make his claim in accordance
               with a form so approved; or

        (ii)   within 3 months after he had been so notified; and

   (c)  a pension is granted to the person under this section upon
        consideration of that claim in accordance with a form so approved, the
        Commission may, subject to this Act, approve payment of the pension
        from and including a date not earlier than 3 months before the date on
        which the claim referred to in paragraph (a) was received at an
        address of the Department.".