Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1993 No. 121, 1993 - SECT 49

49. After section 400A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Cancellation or suspension for failure to take action to obtain a comparable
foreign payment

"400AA.(1) If:

   (a)  a widow B pension recipient has been given a notice under subsection
        391(1); and

   (b)  the Secretary is satisfied that the recipient has not taken reasonable
        action to obtain the comparable foreign payment within the period
        specified in the notice; the Secretary may determine that the pension
        is to be cancelled or suspended.

"(2) For the purposes of this section, a person takes reasonable action to
obtain a comparable foreign payment only if the person takes reasonable action
to obtain that payment at the highest rate applicable to the person.".