Commonwealth Numbered Acts

VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 78 of 1987 - SECT 39

39. Section 156 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Date of operation of decision by Board

"156. (1) Except where:

   (a)  the Board affirms the decision under review; or

   (b)  the Board sets aside the decision under review and makes a decision in
        substitution for the decision set aside that has the effect only of
        revoking a decision of the Commission to cancel or suspend a pension;
        the Board shall specify in its decision on a review under this Part
        the date from which its decision is to operate, being a date fixed in
        accordance with section 157.

"(2) Where the Board sets aside the decision under review and makes, in
substitution for the decision set aside, a decision that has the effect only
of revoking a decision of the Commission to cancel or suspend a pension, the
decision to cancel or suspend the pension shall be deemed never to have had
any force or effect.".