Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES ACT (No. 2) 1975 No. 101, 1975 - SECT 12

12. Where, immediately before 16 September 1975, a pension was payable to a
pensioner in Papua New Guinea by virtue of section 14 of the Social Services
Act (No. 2) 1973, that pension continues to be payable, while he remains in
the area that comprised Papua New Guinea immediately before that date, as if
that area formed part of Australia and, if that pensioner leaves that area
(other than to come to Australia), he shall, for the purposes of Part IVAA of
the Principal Act as amended by this Act, be deemed to leave Australia.
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