Department to give CSC information around time of medical discharge

Current

(1)

If a covered ADF member is about to be, or has been, medically discharged while under 60, the Department must, within 2 months before or after the discharge, give CSC any information the Department has about the member that is relevant to:

(a)

classifying the member; or

(b)

working out the rate of invalidity pension for the member after the discharge.

Note:

Sections 46 and 47 give the CSC powers to get information from a person to whom a benefit may be payable or to whom an invalidity pension is being paid.

(2)

This section does not apply if section 31A applies to the member.

Note:

Under section 31A, a person is taken in certain circumstances to have been medically discharged even though he or she ceased to be a covered ADF member for a different reason.

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