Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143:section:29:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 29 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 152878–155511

29  Power to obtain information
 (1) The Secretary must serve on:
 (a) a person to whom a pension, allowance or other benefit under this Act is being paid, including a person to whom the whole or a part of such a pension, allowance or benefit is being paid for the purpose of being applied for the benefit of the pensioner;
 (b) a person whose claim or application for a pension or attendant allowance under this Act is under consideration by the Commission, a Pensions Committee, the Board or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal;
 (c) a person who is being provided with treatment under the Regulations; or
 (d) a person whose application to be provided with treatment under the Regulations is under consideration by the Commission;
a notice, in writing:
 (e) requiring the person, if an event or change of circumstances specified in the notice occurs or the person becomes aware that an event or change of circumstances so specified is likely to occur, to notify the Secretary, or the officer specified in the notice, of the occurrence, or likely occurrence, of that event or change of circumstances within such period after the occurrence of that event or change of circumstances or after the person becomes aware that that event or change of circumstances is likely to occur, as the case may be, as is specified in the notice; or
 (f) requiring the person to furnish to the Secretary, or to an officer specified in the notice, within the period specified in the notice, a statement, in accordance with a form approved by the Commission, relating to any matter specified in the notice, being a matter that might affect the payment of that pension, allowance or other pecuniary benefit under this Act or the provision of treatment under the Regulations.
 (2) An event or change of circumstances shall not be specified in a notice referred to in paragraph (1)(e) unless the occurrence of that event or change of circumstances might affect the payment of a pension, allowance or other pecuniary benefit under this Act or the provision of treatment under the Regulations.
 (3) The period for compliance specified in a notice in accordance with subsection (1) shall not be less than 14 days.
 (4) A person to whom a notice has been given in accordance with subsection (1) shall not refuse or fail to comply with the notice to the extent that the person is capable of complying with it.
Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.
 (5) A person to whom a notice has been given in accordance with subsection (1) shall not, in purported compliance with the notice, knowingly furnish information that is false or misleading in a