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VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 48

Disposal of ordinary income

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, a person disposes of ordinary income of the person if the person engages in a course of conduct that diminishes, directly or indirectly, the rate of the person's ordinary income and either:

  (a)   the person receives no consideration in money or money's worth for the diminution; or

  (b)   the person receives inadequate consideration in money or money's worth for the diminution; or

  (c)   the Commission is satisfied that the purpose, or the dominant purpose, of the person in engaging in that course of conduct was:

  (i)   to obtain or enable the person's partner to obtain a service pension, income support supplement, a veteran payment or a social security pension or benefit; or

  (ii)   to obtain or enable the person's partner to obtain a service pension, income support supplement, a veteran payment or a social security pension or benefit at a higher rate than that which would otherwise have been payable; or

  (iii)   to ensure that the person or the person's partner would be eligible for benefits under Division   12 of this Part or fringe benefits under the Social Security Act.

Note:   For amount of disposition see section   48A.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to a course of conduct consisting of the provision of short - term or long - term residential accommodation to a family member of the person for no payment or payment less than the market value of the provision of the accommodation.

Note:   For family member see subsection   5L(1).



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