Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 24

             (1)  If a person is an exempt partnered person at the end of the person's last bonus period, the lodgment period applicable to the person's claim for pension bonus is the period:

                     (a)  beginning at the end of that bonus period; and

                     (b)  ending at:

                              (i)  the time of the last occasion on which the person's partner could have lodged a claim for a pension bonus; or

                             (ii)  the end of the period of 13 weeks after the person ceases to be a member of the same couple (whether because of the death of the person's partner or for any other reason);

                            whichever comes first.

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, a person is an exempt partnered person at a particular time if, at that time, the person is a member of a couple and:

                     (a)  the person's partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the pension bonus scheme; or

                     (b)  the person's partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the corresponding scheme under Part IIIAB of the Veterans' Entitlements Act.