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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 80

Cancellation or suspension determination
(1)
If the Secretary is satisfied that a social security payment is being, or has been, paid to a person:

(a)
who is not, or was not, qualified for the payment; or

(b)
to whom the payment is not, or was not, payable;

the Secretary is to determine that the payment is to be cancelled or suspended.

(2)
Subsection (1) does not authorise the Secretary to make a determination if:

(a)
the payment of a social security payment to a person has been cancelled or suspended by the operation of another provision of the social security law; and

(b)
the determination would take effect at or after the time at which the cancellation or suspension referred to in paragraph (a) would take effect.



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