Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPANTS IN BRITISH NUCLEAR TESTS AND BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OCCUPATION FORCE (TREATMENT) ACT 2006 - SECT 46

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   an amount is paid to a person:

  (i)   purportedly by way of reimbursement to a person under subsection   13(4); or

  (ii)   purportedly as travelling expenses under Part   3; and

  (b)   as a result of making a false or misleading statement, the amount paid exceeds the amount (if any) that should have been paid.

  (2)   The amount of the excess is recoverable, in a court of competent jurisdiction, as a debt due to the Commonwealth from:

  (a)   the person by or on behalf of whom the statement was made; or

  (b)   the estate of that person.

  (3)   Subsection   (2) applies whether or not:

  (a)   the amount was paid to the person by or on behalf of whom the statement was made; and

  (b)   any person has been convicted of an offence in relation to the making of the statement.