Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288:section:53b:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 53B (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 52034–54127

the relevant person fails to comply with the notice and the Authority is not satisfied that there was a reasonable excuse for the failure;
the Authority shall, by notice in writing given to the relevant person or to the relevant person and the other person, as the case may be, refuse to revoke the suspension.
 (6) The cost of any medical examination carried out for the purposes of this section shall be treated as part of the cost of the administration of this Act.
 (6A) The power of the Authority under this section to suspend a pension extends to suspending a pension a portion of which has been cancelled by force of subsection 69(1A).
 (6B) Where a person whose pension has been suspended under this section, dies before the pension again becomes payable, he shall, for the purpose of section 57, be deemed to have been entitled to pension immediately before his death and, for the purposes of that section, the pension shall be deemed to have been payable at the rate at which it would have been payable to him if it had not been suspended.
 (7) Where the Authority is required by this section to give a person a notice, the notice shall be taken to have been given to the person if:
 (a) the notice is served on the person personally;
 (b) the notice is sent to the person by pre‑paid post as a letter and the person acknowledges receipt of the letter; or
 (c) where the Authority has caused all reasonable steps to be taken to ascertain a reliable address of the person, the notice is sent to the person by pre‑paid post to:
 (i) in a case where the Authority is satisfied that at least one reliable address of the person has been ascertained—that address or one of those addresses; or
 (ii) in any other case—the last address of the person known to the Authority.
 (8) A reference in subsection (7) to a reliable address of a person shall be read as a reference to an address where, if a letter were sent to the person by pre‑paid post to the address, the person would probably receive the letter.
 (9) In this section, invalidity benefit includes pension payable under section 73.