Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:45ul:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 45UL (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 593090–595706

if the person had not accrued the part‑year bonus period.
  Lodgment period for exempt partnered person
 (5) If a person is an exempt partnered person as at the end of the person's last bonus period because the person is a member of a couple, the lodgment period applicable to the person's claim for pension bonus is the period:
 (a) beginning at the end of that bonus period; and
 (b) ending at:
 (i) the time of the last occasion on which the person's partner could have lodged a claim for a pension bonus; or
 (ii) the end of the period of 13 weeks after the person ceases to be a member of the same couple (whether because of the death of the person's partner or for any other reason);
  whichever comes first.
  Lodgment period for non‑accruing member
 (6) If a person's membership of the pension bonus scheme becomes non‑accruing immediately after the end of the person's last bonus period, the lodgment period applicable to the person's claim for pension bonus is the period:
 (a) beginning at the end of the person's last bonus period; and
 (b) ending 13 weeks after the time when the person's membership of the scheme ceases to be non‑accruing.
  Lodgment period for post‑70/75 member who has a post‑70/75 work period
 (7) If a post‑70/75 member of the pension bonus scheme has a post‑70/75 work period, the lodgment period applicable to the person's claim for pension bonus is the period of 13 weeks beginning at the end of the period nominated in the claim as the person's post‑70/75 work period.
  Exempt partnered person
 (8) For the purposes of this section, a person is an exempt partnered person at a particular time if, at that time, the person is a member of a couple, and:
 (a) the person's partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the pension bonus scheme; or
 (b) the person's partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the corresponding scheme under Part 2.2A of the Social Security Act.
  Post‑70/75 member with a post‑70/75 work period
 (9) For the purposes of this section, a post‑70/75 member of the pension bonus scheme has a post‑70/75 work period if:
 (a) the person's claim for pension bonus nominates a particular period as the person's post‑70/75 work period; and
 (b) the nominated period begins immediately after the end of the person's last bonus period; and
 (c) if it were assumed that the person had been an accruing member of the pension bonus scheme throughout each test period that is applicable to the person, the person would have passed the work test for each test period.
Note: Test period is defined by subsection (10).
 (10) For the purposes of subsection