Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 169

169. (1) If:

   (a)  a wife pension is payable to a person; and

   (b)  the person dies; and

   (c)  at the date of the person's death the person had not received an
        amount of wife pension payable to her; and

   (d)  another person applies to receive that amount; and

   (e)  the application is made:

   (i)  within 6 months after the death; or

   (ii) within a further period allowed by the Secretary in special
        circumstances; the Secretary may pay the amount to the person who, in
        the Secretary's opinion, is best entitled to it.

(2) If the Secretary pays an amount of wife pension under subsection (1), the
Commonwealth has no further liability to any person in respect of that amount
of wife pension.