Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPANTS IN BRITISH NUCLEAR TESTS AND BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OCCUPATION FORCE (TREATMENT) ACT 2006 - SECT 48

  (1)   The Commission may reduce the amount of any payment that becomes payable to a person if:

  (a)   an amount has previously been paid to the 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)   the amount paid exceeds the amount (if any) that should have been paid; and

  (c)   the person agrees to the reduction.

  (2)   The amount of the reduction must not exceed:

  (a)   if the Commission has not previously reduced a payment under this section--the amount of the excess; and

  (b)   otherwise--the amount by which the sum of all amounts of excess under subsection   (1) exceeds the sum of all amounts recovered under this section.