Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00406:clause:2_963
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00406
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 963
Character Range: 87800–89586

963  Claims by telephone, facsimile or computer

 (1) This section applies to a person if:
 (a) the Department is contacted by or on behalf of the person by telephone, or by the transmission of a message by use of facsimile or computer equipment, in relation to the making of a claim by the person for carer allowance; and
 (b) on the day the Department was contacted, the person was qualified for carer allowance; and
 (c) the Secretary gives the person a written notice acknowledging that the Department has been contacted in relation to the making of the claim; and
 (d) the person lodges a claim for carer allowance within the period stated in subsection (2); and
 (e) either:
 (i) the person gives the Secretary the notice referred to in paragraph (c) when lodging the claim; or
 (ii) the Department has a written record that the notice referred to in paragraph (c) has been sent to the person.

 (2) Subject to subsection (3), for the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) the period is 21 days after the day on which the Department was contacted (the 21 day period).

 (3) The Secretary may determine, by written notice given to the person:
 (a) within the 21 day period; or
 (b) within the period of any extension under this subsection;
that the period for the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) is extended to a period that is not longer than 3 months after the day on which the Department was contacted.

 (4) If this section applies to a person, the person is taken to have lodged a claim in accordance with section 968 on the day on which the Department was contacted.

 (5) For the purposes of this Act, a person who contacts the Department by transmitting a message by the use of facsimile or computer equipment is taken to have done so when the message is received in the Department.