Section 198N — Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986: Cancellation of entitlement to pension

(1) This section applies if, because of subsection 4(6) or (8B) of the Veterans’ Entitlements (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986, a pension is payable to a person, including a pension whose rate has been reduced to nil. (2) Despite section 4 of that Act, the pension is not payable to the person on or after 22 September 2009. (3) However, the person is entitled to receive a lump sum payment, to be paid on or after 24 September 2009, equal to 3 years’ worth of the pension, calculated according to the rate at which the person’s last pension payment was paid. (4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to a person who is paid a pension on the basis that the person was, at the time section 66 of the Repatriation Legislation Amendment Act 1985 came into force, without adequate means of support.