Section 85 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Resumption of payment after cancellation or suspension—general
Text of the provision Official document
(1) If: (a) a person’s social security payment is: (i) cancelled by force of section 93 or 94 or subsection 95C(2); or (ii) cancelled or suspended under section 80, 81 or 82; or (iia) suspended under subsection 95C(1); or (iii) cancelled under Part 3C (schooling requirements); and Note: For reconsideration of the suspension of a schooling requirement payment, see sections 124J, 124N and 124NG. (b) the Secretary reconsiders the decision; and (c) as a result of the reconsideration, the Secretary is satisfied that, because of the decision: (i) the person did not receive a social security payment that was payable to the person; or (ii) the person is not receiving a social security payment that is payable to the person; the Secretary is to determine that the social security payment was or is payable to the person, as the case requires. (2) The reconsideration referred to in paragraph (1)(b) may be a reconsideration on an application under section 129 or a reconsideration on the Secretary’s own initiative.
Official source: Federal Register of Legislation
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