Section 90 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Automatic cancellation—transfer to new payment type

(1) If: (a) a person is receiving a social security pension or benefit (the old payment); and (b) either: (i) a different kind of social security pension or benefit (the new pension or benefit) becomes payable to the person; or (ii) a service pension, income support supplement or a veteran payment becomes payable to the person; the old payment is cancelled, by force of this section, immediately before the day on which the new pension or benefit or the service pension, income support supplement or veteran payment, as the case may be, becomes payable to the person. (2) In this section: social security benefit does not include parenting payment.