Section 24 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Claim by exempt partnered person

(1) If a person is an exempt partnered person at the end of the person’s last bonus period, the lodgment period applicable to the person’s claim for pension bonus is the period: (a) beginning at the end of that bonus period; and (b) ending at: (i) the time of the last occasion on which the person’s partner could have lodged a claim for a pension bonus; or (ii) the end of the period of 13 weeks after the person ceases to be a member of the same couple (whether because of the death of the person’s partner or for any other reason); whichever comes first. (2) For the purposes of this section, a person is an exempt partnered person at a particular time if, at that time, the person is a member of a couple and: (a) the person’s partner is an accruing or non-accruing member of the pension bonus scheme; or (b) the person’s partner is an accruing or non-accruing member of the corresponding scheme under Part IIIAB of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act.