Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01113:clause:1_31
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01113
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 31
Character Range: 28789–29640

31  At the end of section 38B
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After a person makes a claim, the person's partner becomes a special rate disability pensioner

 (3) If:
 (a) a person makes a claim for partner service pension; and
 (b) that claim is refused; and
 (c) that claim would not have been refused if, on the day on which the claim was made, the person's partner was a veteran to whom section 24 applied; and
 (d) after that claim is refused, the Secretary notifies the person's partner that he or she is a veteran to whom section 24 applies; and
 (e) within 3 months after that notification, the person makes another claim for partner service pension;
then the person's provisional commencement day is the later of:
 (f) the day the person made the claim referred to in paragraph (a); and
 (g) the day the person's partner became a veteran to whom section 24 applies.