Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 58, 1988 - SECT 15

15. Section 125 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4) and
substituting the following subsection:

"(4) If a claim for sickness benefit is not lodged within the time specified
in subsection (3), the benefit is payable:

   (a)  if the Secretary is satisfied that the sole or dominant cause of the
        failure to lodge the claim within that time was the incapacity
        concerned-from and including such date as the Secretary considers to
        be reasonable in the circumstances, not being a date earlier than 4
        weeks before the day on which the claim is lodged; or

   (b)  in any other case-from and including the day on which the claim is
        lodged.".