Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458:section:24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 24
Character Range: 66579–67579

24  Claim by exempt partnered person
 (1) If a person is an exempt partnered person at 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 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.
 (2) 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 IIIAB of the Veterans' Entitlements Act.