Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186:section:43
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 43
Character Range: 146041–148075

43  Certain persons may request cessation of compensation payments
 (1) Where compensation under this Act is payable to, or for the benefit of, a person who is:
 (a) a member of the Forces, or a member of a Peacekeeping Force, for the purposes of Part IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; or
 (b) a veteran who has, on or after the day on which the Military Compensation Act 1994 commences, rendered operational service for the purposes of Part II of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; or
 (c) a dependant of such a member or veteran;
the person may, by notice in writing to the MRCC, request that an amount of compensation under this Act to which the person is entitled, or may become entitled, not be paid to, or for the benefit of, the person.
 (2) Where the MRCC receives a request by a person:
 (a) an amount of compensation under this Act that is payable to, or for the benefit of, the person at the time of that receipt, being an amount to which the request relates, ceases to be so payable; and
 (b) an amount of compensation under this Act that would, but for this section, become payable to, or for the benefit of, that person during the period when the request is in force, being an amount to which the request relates, does not become payable.
 (3) A person who has made a request may, by notice in writing to the MRCC, revoke the request.
 (4) The revocation of a request:
 (a) has effect on the receipt of the notice of revocation by the MRCC; and
 (b) does not revive any entitlement to an amount of compensation that had ceased to be payable, or had not become payable, as a result of the making of the request.
 (5) A person who is under a legal disability may not make or revoke a request but a request may be made or revoked on his or her behalf by another person who the MRCC is satisfied represents the first‑mentioned person's interests.
 (6) A request or revocation made on behalf of a person under a legal disability shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken to have been made by that person.