Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:58d
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 58D
Character Range: 1057286–1058483

58D  Agents
 (1) The Commission may approve payment of a pension of a person (the primary person) to another person if:
 (a) the primary person, by document lodged at an office of the Department in Australia in accordance with section 5T, requests the Commission to pay the pension to the other person; and
 (b) the Commission is satisfied that the other person has agreed to receive payment as agent of the primary person.
 (1A) A request lodged in accordance with section 5T is taken to have been made on a day determined under that section.
 (2) An approval under subsection (1):
 (a) must be in writing; and
 (b) must specify the person to whom the pension is to be paid; and
 (c) must specify the period for which the pension is to be paid to that person.
 (3) If a payment of pension is made to another person in accordance with an approval under subsection (1):
 (a) the payment is, for all purposes, to be taken to be a payment of the pension to the primary person; and
 (b) neither the Commonwealth nor the Commission is bound to oversee the application of the payment by the other person; and
 (c) the other person is to be taken to receive the payment as agent for the primary person.