Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An application to the Board for a review:
(a) shall be in writing; and
(b) is to be lodged at an office of the Department in Australia in accordance with section 5T and is taken to have been made on a day determined under that section;
and may set out a statement of the reasons for the application.
(2) An application under subsection (1) relating to a pension granted to, or claimed for, a veteran, or a dependant of a deceased veteran, may be made:
(a) by the veteran or dependant, as the case may be;
(b) with the approval of the veteran or dependant, as the case may be, by another person on behalf of the veteran or dependant;
(c) in the case of a veteran or dependant, as the case may be, who is unable, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, to approve a person to make an application on his or her behalf--on behalf of the veteran or dependant, by a person approved by the Commission; or
(d) in the case of a dependant who is under the age of 18 years, on behalf of the dependant:
(i) by a parent or guardian of the dependant;
(ii) by another person approved by a parent or guardian of the dependant; or
(iii) if there is not a parent or guardian of the dependant alive or willing and able to make, or approve a person to make, such an application on behalf of the dependant--by another person, being a person approved by the Commission.
(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the application of section 126 in relation to applications under subsection (1) of this section.
(4) An application under subsection (1) relating to a decision under an instrument made under section 115S (about acute support packages) may be made by the person to whom the decision relates.