Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) If, at the time of a person's death, the Commonwealth owed an amount to the person, the Finance Minister may authorise payment of that amount to the person who the Minister considers should receive the payment.
(2) The Minister may authorise the payment without requiring production of probate of the will of the deceased person or letters of administration of the estate of the deceased person.
(3) In deciding who should be paid, the Finance Minister must have regard to the persons who are entitled to the property of the deceased person under the deceased person's will or under the law relating to the disposition of the property of deceased persons.
(4) Subject to subregulation (5), after the payment is made, the Commonwealth has no further liability in respect of the payment.
(5) This regulation does not relieve the recipient from a liability to deal with the money in accordance with law.
(6) This regulation does not have the effect of appropriating the CRF for the purposes of payments under this regulation.
(7) This regulation extends to a case in which the deceased person died before the commencement of this regulation.