Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 98, 1982 - SECT 47

47. After section 61A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Qualification of certain widows

''61B. (1) Subject to this Act, a widow referred to in paragraph 60 (1) (a),
(b) or (c) is qualified to receive a widow's pension if-

   (a)  she became a widow by reason of the death of a man;

   (b)  she was, immediately before the death of that man, receiving-

        (i)    a wife's pension under Part III by reason of that man being a
               person referred to in sub-section 31 (1) or (1A); or

        (ii)   a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920 by reason of
               that man being in receipt of a service pension under that Act;
               and

   (c)  she was not physically present in Australia at the time of the death
        of that man.

''(2) Where-

   (a)  a person becomes qualified to receive widow's pension as a class C
        widow;

   (b)  but for sub-section (1), the person would not have become so
        qualified; and

   (c)  before the expiration of the period during which widow's pension is
        payable to her as a class C widow, she becomes a class A widow or a
        class B widow, the person is qualified to receive widow's pension as a
        class A widow or as a class B widow, as the case may be.''.