Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651:section:19
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19
Character Range: 96006–97204

19  Benefits to spouse
 (1) Where:
 (a) a person who is entitled to a parliamentary allowance dies; or
 (b) a person who is entitled to a retiring allowance (whether or not the retiring allowance is immediately payable) dies;
benefits are payable in accordance with this section.
 (2) Subject to sections 19AAA and 21AA, if the deceased person is survived by a spouse, there is payable to the spouse an annuity, during his or her life‑time, at a rate ascertained in accordance with subsection (3).
 (3) The rate of the annuity referred to in subsection (2) is five‑sixths of the rate of the retiring allowance that would have been applicable to the deceased person if he or she had not died and:
 (aa) where he or she died while entitled to a retiring allowance the rate of which was, at the time of his or her death, reduced under section 21B—the rate of retiring allowance to which he or she was entitled was not so reduced;
 (a) where he or she died while entitled to a parliamentary allowance—he or she had ceased to be entitled to that allowance on the date of his or her death; and
 (b) where his or her period of service was less than 8 years—his or her period of service had been 8 years.