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VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 152

Request to Secretary for documents etc.

  (1)   The Board may, at any time, request the Secretary:

  (a)   to forward to the Board further documents in the custody of the Secretary relating to a review;

  (b)   to obtain, and forward to the Board, further documents relating to a review; or

  (c)   to arrange for the making of any investigation, or any medical examination, that the Board thinks necessary with respect to a review, and to forward to the Board a report of that investigation or examination.

  (2)   Where a request is made under subsection   (1), the Board shall adjourn any hearing of the review to which the request relates and may, in the case of a review of a decision with respect to a pension assessment, vary that assessment pending the completion of that review, having regard to the records and evidence on which the Commission reached that decision.



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