Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539:body:0:p50
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03539
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 120805–123685

(c) in a case to which paragraph (a) applies—be further reduced by the difference between that first-mentioned reduction and that lesser amount per annum; or
    (d) in a case to which paragraph (b) applies—be reduced by that lesser amount per annum.".
Commencement: 13 November 1987

Remote area allowance
77. Section 57 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:
    "(1) In this section:
    'Australia' includes:
         (a) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and
         (b) the Territory of Christmas Island;
    'remote area' means:
         (a) those parts of Australia referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936;
         (b) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and
         (c) the Territory of Christmas Island.".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Review of decision etc.
78. Section 59 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) and substituting the following paragraphs:
    "(a) a claimant who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Commission:
        (i) in respect of a claim for a service pension; or
        (ii) under section 53; or
    (b) a service pensioner who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Commission:

        (i) cancelling or suspending a service pension;
        (ii) terminating the suspension of a service pension;
        (iii) reducing or increasing the rate of a service pension;
        (iv) refusing an application for an increase in the rate of a service pension; or
        (v) under section 53;".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Special temporary allowance
79. Section 65 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
    "(7) Where:
    (a) an amount of special temporary allowance is payable to a service pensioner under this section; and
    (b) an amount of pension, being an amount that would have been payable to the service pensioner's spouse if the spouse had not died, is paid into an account that was held jointly or in common by the service pensioner and the spouse at a financial institution;
the amount of special temporary allowance payable to the service pensioner shall be reduced by the amount referred to in paragraph (b).".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Prescribed persons
80. Section 82 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections:
    "(1a) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where:
    (a) on or after 1 January 1988, the annual rate of income of a person, calculated as mentioned in subsection (1), increases so that it exceeds the prescribed rate of income applicable to the person by virtue of subsection 83 (1);
    (b) immediately before that increase, the annual rate of the person's income did not exceed that prescribed rate of income; and
    (c)the amount of