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mariner is undertaking or is capable of undertaking that work for 20 or more hours per week; or
    (c) in the case of a mariner to whom section 22a applies—the mariner is undertaking or is capable of undertaking remunerative work for periods aggregating more than 8 hours per week.".
Commencement: 22 May 1986

Allowance for attendant
104. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (2) "$62.20" and substituting "$68.20".
Commencement: 17 December 1987

Power to obtain information
105. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) "must" and substituting "may".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Application for review
106. Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (4) "refusing to grant" and substituting "being a decision relating to".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Application of Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act
107. Section 41 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (7) "or attendant allowance" after "pension" (wherever occurring).
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Payment of pensions
108. Section 54 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (2) and (3) and substituting the following subsections:
"(2) Where the pensioner requests the Commission in writing to do so, -the Commission may, in writing, approve payment of the pension to a person specified in the request for such period as is specified in the approval.
"(3) The Commission shall not approve payment of the pension to the person specified in the request unless the Commission is satisfied that the person has agreed to receive payment as agent of the pensioner.
"(3a) Where a payment of pension is made to a person in accordance with an approval under subsection (2):
    (a) the payment shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a payment of the pension to the pensioner;

    (b) neither the Commonwealth nor the Commission is bound to oversee the application of the payment by the person; and
    (c) the person shall be taken to receive the payment as agent of the pensioner.".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Review by Commission
109. (1) Section 55 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting "or" from the end of paragraph (5a) (b); and
    (b) by omitting all the material in subsection (5a) after paragraph (5a) (b) and substituting the following:
       "(c) by reason of a refusal or failure of an Australian mariner to comply with a notice served on the mariner under subsection (5aa); or
        (d) by reason of the circumstances referred to in a paragraph of section 24a being applicable to the veteran;
    in a case to which paragraph (a), (b) or (c) applies, a pension should be cancelled or suspended or is being