Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE COVER ACT 2015 - SECT 53

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, CSC may presume that any information given to CSC by the Department about the salary or service of a covered ADF member (including the age of the member when he or she was medically discharged or died) is correct.

  (2)   If a tribunal, authority or person is empowered:

  (a)   to review or reconsider a decision of CSC under this Act; and

  (b)   to vary, or make a decision in substitution for, CSC's decision under this Act;

the tribunal, authority or person is not bound by any presumption made by CSC under subsection   (1).