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Provision Reference: s 17 (pt 1/5)
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17  Compensation recovery definitions
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
compensation has the meaning given by subsection (2).
Note: See also section 1163B.
compensation affected payment means:
 (aa) an age pension; or
 (a) a disability support pension; or
 (b) a parenting payment; or
 (c) a social security benefit; or
 (f) a carer payment; or
 (g) a special needs disability support pension; or
 (h) a special needs disability support wife pension; or
 (k) a former payment type; or
 (l) any of the following:
 (i) an advance pharmaceutical allowance;
 (ii) a telephone allowance;
 (iv) an education entry payment;
 (v) a pensioner education supplement;
  where, in order to be qualified for the allowance, payment or supplement, a person must be receiving, or receiving at a particular time, another kind of payment and that other kind of payment (the underlying compensation affected payment) is a compensation affected payment to which any of paragraphs (aa) to (k) applies; or
 (m) a fares allowance, where:
 (i) if subparagraph 1061ZAAA(1)(b)(i), (ii) or (iii) applies—the allowance or payment (the underlying compensation affected payment) mentioned in that subparagraph is a compensation affected payment to which any of paragraphs (aa) to (k) of this definition applies; or
 (ii) if subparagraph 1061ZAAA(1)(b)(iv) applies—in order to be qualified for the supplement mentioned in that subparagraph, a person must be receiving another kind of payment and that other kind of payment (the underlying compensation affected payment) is a compensation affected payment to which any of paragraphs (aa) to (k) of this definition applies.
compensation part, in relation to a lump sum compensation payment, has the meaning given by subsections (3) and (4).
compensation payer means:
 (a) a person who is liable to make a compensation payment; or
 (b) an authority of a State or Territory that has determined that it will make a payment by way of compensation to another person, whether or not the authority is liable to make the payment.
event that gives rise to a person's entitlement to compensation has the meaning given by subsection (5A).
former payment type means:
 (a) an invalid pension under the 1947 Act; or
 (b) an invalid pension under this Act as previously in force; or
 (ba) a disability wage supplement under this Act as previously in force; or
 (c) a sheltered employment allowance under the 1947 Act; or
 (d) a sheltered employment allowance under this Act as previously in force; or
 (e) an unemployment benefit under the 1947 Act; or
 (f) a sickness benefit under the 1947 Act; or
 (g) a special benefit under the 1947 Act; or
 (h) a sickness benefit under this Act as previously in force; or
 (ha) a job search allowance under this Act as previously in