Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPERANNUATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 130, 1991 - SECT 27

27. After section 73A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Reduction of invalidity pensions because of pre-assessment payments

"73B. Where:

   (a)  a person is entitled to receive payments of a kind mentioned in
        section 54L (in this section called `pre-assessment payments'); and

   (b)  the person is retired on the ground of invalidity with effect from a
        day occurring during the period of the person's entitlement to
        pre-assessment payments; the person is entitled to invalidity pension
        in respect of a pension pay day immediately preceding a contribution
        day occurring during that period only to the extent (if any) by which
        the amount of pension that, but for this section, would be payable
        exceeds the amount of pre-assessment payment payable on that
        contribution day.".