Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 24A

             (1)  Subject to subsections (1A) and (2), if the Commonwealth is or becomes liable to pay a pension to a veteran at the rate applicable under section 23 or 24, that rate continues, while a pension continues to be payable to the veteran, to apply to the veteran unless:

                     (a)  the decision to apply that rate of pension to the veteran would not have been made but for a false statement or misrepresentation made by a person;

                     (b)  in the case of a veteran to whom section 23 applies:

                              (i)  the veteran is undertaking or is capable of undertaking remunerative work of a particular kind for 50% or more of the time (excluding overtime) ordinarily worked by persons engaged in work of that kind on a full time basis; or

                             (ii)  in a case where subparagraph (i) is inapplicable to the work which the veteran is undertaking or is capable of undertaking--the veteran is undertaking or is capable of undertaking that work for 20 or more hours per week; or

                     (c)  in the case of a veteran to whom section 24 applies--the veteran is undertaking or is capable of undertaking remunerative work for periods aggregating more than 8 hours per week.

          (1A)  However, subsection (1) does not prevent a rate applicable under subsection 24(4) or (5) from being reduced to give effect to subsection 24(6).

             (2)  Paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) do not apply to a veteran if the veteran is undertaking a rehabilitation program under the Veterans' Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme or section 115D applies to the veteran.