Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 77, 1987 - SECT 18

18. Section 81 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Restrictions as to dual pensions

"81. (1) A woman is not entitled to receive at the same time a pension under
this Part and:

   (a)  a pension under Part III;

   (b)  a pension under the Seamen's War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940 as a
        dependant of a deceased Australian mariner;

   (c)  a pension under Part II of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 as a
        dependant of a deceased veteran; or

   (d)  a pension under Part IV of that Act as a dependant of a deceased
        member of the Forces or of a deceased member of a Peacekeeping Force.

"(2) A reference in subsection (1) to a dependant of a deceased person is a
reference to a person (not being a child of the deceased person) who is a
dependant of the deceased person for the purposes of:

   (a)  in the case of a reference in paragraph (1) (b)-the Seamen's War
        Pensions and Allowances Act 1940; or

   (b)  in the case of a reference in paragraph (1) (c) or (d)-the Veterans' 
        Entitlements Act 1986 .".