Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:13:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13 (pt 5/5)
Character Range: 308453–309833

or is eligible to receive, a pension under this Part as the child of a deceased person, being a veteran, would, but for this subsection, become eligible to receive a pension under this Part or Part IV as the child of another deceased person, being a veteran, or a member of the Forces, or a member of a Peacekeeping Force, as defined by subsection 68(1), the Commonwealth is liable to pay a pension to the person under this Part or Part IV as the child of only one of those deceased persons, and, if the rate at which that pension would be payable as the child of one of those deceased persons (in this subsection referred to as the relevant deceased person) is higher than the rate at which that pension would be payable as the child of the other of those deceased persons, then:
 (a) if the relevant deceased person is a veteran—the Commonwealth is liable to pay a pension to the person under this Part as the child of the relevant deceased person; or
 (b) in any other case—the Commonwealth is not liable to pay a pension to the person under this Part.
 (11) In this section (other than in subsections (7A), (8), (8A), (8B), (9) and (10)), a reference to a veteran shall be read as a reference to a person (including a deceased person) who is, because of section 7, taken to have rendered eligible war service.

Division 2A—Verification determinations for reinstated pensioners