SAFETY, REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 43 Certain persons may request cessation of compensation payments

SAFETY, REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 43

  (1)   If compensation under this Act is payable to, or for the benefit of, a person who is:

  (a)   a member of a Peacekeeping Force, for the purposes of Part   IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 ; or

  (b)   a dependant of such a member;

the person may, by notice in writing to Comcare, request that an amount (the compensation amount ) of compensation under this Act to which the person is entitled, or may become entitled, not be paid to, or for the benefit of, the person.

  (2)   When Comcare receives the request, the compensation amount:

  (a)   ceases to be payable at the time of that receipt; and

  (b)   if the amount would become payable during the period when the request is in force, does not become payable.

  (3)   The person may, by notice in writing to Comcare, revoke the request.

  (4)   The revocation:

  (a)   has effect on the receipt of the notice by Comcare; and

  (b)   does not revive any entitlement to the compensation amount, as a result of making the request.

  (5)   A person who is under a legal disability (the first person ) may not make or revoke a request but a request may be made or revoked on his or her behalf by another person who Comcare is satisfied represents the first person's interests.

  (6)   A request or revocation made on behalf of the first person is taken to have been made by that person.