SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 123I Giving of notices to correspondence nominee

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 123I

  (1)   Any notice that the Secretary is authorised or required by the social security law to give to a benefit recipient may be given by the Secretary to the benefit recipient's correspondence nominee.

  (2)   The notice:

  (a)   must, in every respect, be in the same form, and in the same terms, as if it were being given to the benefit recipient; and

  (b)   may be given to the correspondence nominee personally or by post or in any other manner approved by the Secretary.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   under subsection   (1), the Secretary gives a notice (the nominee notice ) to a benefit recipient's correspondence nominee; and

  (b)   the Secretary afterwards gives the benefit recipient a notice that:

  (i)   is expressed to be given under the same provision of the social security law as the nominee notice; and

  (ii)   makes the same requirement of the benefit recipient as the nominee notice;

section   123J ceases to have effect in relation to the nominee notice.

  (4)   If:

  (a)   under subsection   (1), the Secretary gives a notice (the nominee notice ) to a benefit recipient's correspondence nominee; and

  (b)   the Secretary has already given to the benefit recipient a notice that:

  (i)   is expressed to be given under the same provision of the social security law as the nominee notice; and

  (ii)   makes the same requirement of the benefit recipient as the nominee notice;

section   123J does not have effect in relation to the nominee notice.