Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where a male
pensioner is detained as a patient in a hospital for the insane, the Board may
cause his pension or any part thereof to be paid during the period of
detention to his wife, if alive, or, if his wife is dead or divorced, to some
person for the use of such of the children of himself or of his late wife as
are under the age of 16 years or are student children in such proportions
as the Board may think fit.
(2) Where a female
pensioner is detained as a patient in a hospital for the insane, the Board may
cause her pension or any part thereof to be paid during the period of
detention to some person in such proportion as the Board thinks fit for the
use of such of the children of the pensioner or of her late husband as are
under the age of 16 years or are student children.
(3) This section shall
apply and have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 .
[Section 71 8 amended by No. 55 of 1945
s.17; No. 101 of 1964 s.12; No. 24 of 1990 s.123.]