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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 14
Deemed claim—person contacting Department about a claim for a concession card
- (1)
- For the purposes of the social security law, if:
- (a)
- the Department is contacted by or on behalf of a person in relation to a
claim for a concession card; and
- (b)
- the person is, on the day on which the Department is contacted, qualified
for the concession card; and
- (c)
- the Secretary gives the person a written notice acknowledging that the
Department has been contacted in relation to the making of the claim; and
- (d)
- the person lodges a claim for the concession card within 14 days after he
or she contacts the Department;
the person is taken to have made a claim for the concession card on the day on
which the Department was contacted.
- (2)
- For the purposes of the social security law, if:
- (a)
- the Department is contacted by or on behalf of a person in relation to a
claim for a concession card; and
- (b)
- the person is, on the day on which the Department is contacted, qualified
for the concession card; and
- (c)
- the Secretary gives the person a written notice acknowledging that the
Department has been contacted in relation to the making of the claim; and
- (d)
- the person lodges a claim for the concession card more than 14 days, but
not more than 13 weeks, after the Department is contacted; and
- (e)
- the Secretary is satisfied that:
- (i)
- throughout the period starting on the day on which the Department was
contacted and ending on the day on which the person lodged the claim, the
person was suffering from a medical condition; and
- (ii)
- that medical condition, or circumstances related to that medical
condition, had a significant adverse effect on the person's ability to lodge
the claim earlier;
the person is taken to have made a claim for the concession card on the day on
which the Department was contacted.
- (3)
- For the purposes of the social security law, if:
- (a)
- the Department is contacted by or on behalf of a person (the claimant ) in
relation to a claim for a concession card; and
- (b)
- the claimant is, on the day on which the Department is contacted,
qualified for the concession card; and
- (c)
- the Secretary gives the claimant a written notice acknowledging that the
Department has been contacted in relation to the making of the claim; and
- (d)
- the claimant lodges a claim for the concession card more than 14 days, but
not more than 13 weeks, after the Department is contacted; and
- (e)
- the Secretary is satisfied that:
- (i)
- throughout the period starting on the day on which the Department was
contacted and ending on the day on which the claimant lodged the claim, the
claimant was caring for, or was the partner of, another person; and
- (ii)
- throughout that period, the other person suffered from a medical
condition; and
- (iii)
- the medical condition, or circumstances related to the medical
condition, from which the other person was suffering had a significant adverse
effect on the claimant's ability to lodge the claim earlier;
the claimant is taken to have made a claim for the concession card on the day
on which the Department was contacted.
- (4)
- A reference in this section to the Department being contacted includes a
reference to the Department being contacted by post or telephone or by the
transmission of a message by the use of facsimile, computer equipment or other
electronic means.
- (5)
- This section has effect subject to section 18.
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