Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143:section:54:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 54 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 165122–167636

54  Payment of pensions
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a pension shall be paid to the pensioner.
 (2) The Commission may, if it thinks it proper to do so in the circumstances of a particular case:
 (a) approve payment of a pension to such person, other than the pensioner, and for such period, as the Commission, from time to time, determines, to be applied by that person for the benefit of the pensioner; or
 (b) approve:
 (i) payment to that pensioner of such part of the pension as the Commission, from time to time, determines; and
 (ii) payment to such other person as the Commission so determines for such period as the Commission so determines of the balance of the pension to be applied by that other person for the benefit of the pensioner.
 (3) Where a pension has been granted to a person, a payment of that pension made to another person in accordance with paragraph (2)(a), or a payment of a part of that pension made to another person in accordance with subparagraph (2)(b)(ii), shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a payment of the pension or a payment of that part of the pension, as the case may be, to the pensioner, and neither the Commonwealth nor the Commission is bound to oversee the application of the payment by the person to whom it is paid.
 (4) A pension shall be paid in such manner as the Commission determines.
 (5) Where, by reason of a public holiday or a bank holiday, or for any other reason, an instalment of, or the amount of, a pension cannot be paid on the day on which it would normally be paid, the instalment or amount of the pension may be paid on an earlier day.
 (6) In this section, pension means a pension, allowance or other pecuniary benefit payable under this Act or the Regulations, and includes an instalment of such a pension, allowance or other benefit.

Subsection 55(1):
Omit the subsection, substitute the following subsection:
 (1) Where:
 (a) the time has not expired for making application to the Board under section 35 for a review of a decision of the Commission or a Pensions Committee with respect to:
 (i) a claim for a pension in accordance with section 26; or
 (ii) an application for an increased pension, or for a pension, in accordance with section 26AA; or
 (b) an application has been duly made to the Board under section 35 for a review of such a decision of the Commission or a Pensions Committee but has not been determined by the Board;
the Commission may, in its discretion, review that decision and, if it varies that decision, it