Section 58D — Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986: Agents

(1) The Commission may approve payment of a pension of a person (the primary person) to another person if: (a) the primary person, by document lodged at an office of the Department in Australia in accordance with section 5T, requests the Commission to pay the pension to the other person; and (b) the Commission is satisfied that the other person has agreed to receive payment as agent of the primary person. (1A) A request lodged in accordance with section 5T is taken to have been made on a day determined under that section. (2) An approval under subsection (1): (a) must be in writing; and (b) must specify the person to whom the pension is to be paid; and (c) must specify the period for which the pension is to be paid to that person. (3) If a payment of pension is made to another person in accordance with an approval under subsection (1): (a) the payment is, for all purposes, to be taken to be a payment of the pension to the primary person; and (b) neither the Commonwealth nor the Commission is bound to oversee the application of the payment by the other person; and (c) the other person is to be taken to receive the payment as agent for the primary person.