(1) This regulation applies if:
(a) a member died before 1 July 2009; and
(b) at the time of the member's death, a person was not the wholly dependent partner of the member; and
(c) the person would have been the wholly dependent partner of the member if the Act had been in force at the time of the member's death.
(2) For section 245 of the MRCA, the person is taken to have been the wholly dependent partner of the member.
(3) Telephone allowance, under section 245 of the MRCA, is not payable to the person before 1 July 2009.