Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288:section:53b:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 53B (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 47257–49861

53B  Power to require invalid pensioners to be medically examined and to furnish information as to employment
 (1) The Authority may, by notice in writing to a person to whom a pension, being invalidity benefit, is being paid, require that person:
 (a) to submit himself for medical examination by a legally qualified medical practitioner at a time and place specified in the notice; or
 (b) to furnish in writing to the Authority, within such period as is specified in the notice, such information as is required by the notice with respect to any employment (whether as an employee or on his own account) in which the person has been engaged during such period as is specified in the notice.
 (2) A notice under subsection (1) shall set out the effect of subsection (3).
 (3) Where a person fails to comply with a notice given under subsection (1) and the Authority is not satisfied that there was a reasonable excuse for the failure, the Authority may, by notice in writing given to the person, suspend the person's pension with effect from such day as the Authority determines, being a day not earlier than:
 (a) in a case where the first‑mentioned notice required the person to submit to a medical examination on a day specified in the notice—the day next following that day; or
 (b) in a case where the first‑mentioned notice required the person to furnish information within a period specified in the notice—the day next following the end of that period.
 (4) A notice to a person under subsection (3) shall set out the effect of subsections (5B), (5D) and (5E).
 (5) Pension is not payable in respect of a period during which a suspension under subsection (3) is in force.
 (5A) Where:
 (a) the pension of a person is suspended under subsection (3); and
 (b) the Authority, having regard to such matters as it considers relevant, is of the opinion that the suspension should be revoked;
the Authority may, by notice in writing given to the person or to the person and a person acting on the person's behalf, as the case may be, revoke the suspension with effect from such day as the Authority determines, being a day not later than the day on which the notice is given.
 (5B) Without limiting subsection (5A), where the pension of a person (in this subsection called the relevant person) is suspended under subsection (3), the relevant person, or another person acting on the relevant person's behalf, may, by notice in writing given to the Authority, request the Authority to revoke the suspension, and where such a request is made, the Authority shall, by notice in writing given to the relevant