Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973

In this section, unless the contrary intention appears:

Where a person to whom this section applies:

dies on or before the date that is the declared date in relation to the election; or

was a candidate at the election but failed to be elected and dies within a period of 90 days after the date that is the declared date in relation to the election;

Where CSC is satisfied:

that, if a person to whom this section applies had not ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force, he would, at a time (in this subsection referred to as the relevant time) within:

the period that commenced upon his ceasing to be an eligible member of the Defence Force and ended on the date that is the declared date in relation to the election; or

the period of 90 days after the date that is the declared date in relation to the election;

that he was prevented from being a candidate at the election by reason of the invalidity or incapacity or was a candidate at the election but failed to be elected;

Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply in relation to a person to whom this section applies who dies, or would have been retired, within the period of 90 days after the date that is the declared date in relation to the election if CSC is of the opinion that, if he had not died or had not suffered the invalidity or incapacity, as the case may be, he would not have been re‑instated in the part of the Defence Force in which he was serving immediately before he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force.

This section does not apply in relation to a person unless, within the period of 90 days after the date that is the declared date in relation to the election or within such further period as CSC allows:

there is paid to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the amount, or to the sum of the amounts, of any benefit paid to or in respect of the person by reason of his having ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force;

there is paid to the Commonwealth the contributions that the person would have been required to pay after he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force if he had not so ceased and his annual rate of pay during that period had been the annual rate of pay that would have been applicable to him during that period if he had not ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force; and

there is paid to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the amount of any payment of a prescribed kind (being a payment of, or in the nature of, a gratuity or bounty) paid to the person under legislation relating to conditions of service of members of the Defence Force, in respect of his service before he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force.