Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 56N

    If:

  (a)   payment to a person of a service pension, income support supplement or a veteran payment is based upon data in a computer; and

  (b)   the rate of the pension, supplement or payment is increased or reduced, or the pension, supplement or payment is cancelled or suspended, because of the operation of a computer program approved by the Commission; and

  (c)   the program causes the change for a reason for which the Commission could determine the change;

the change is taken to have been made because of a determination by the Commission for that reason.

Note:   This section does not apply where:

(a)   an automatic termination is produced by section   56 or 56A; or

(b)   an automatic rate reduction is produced by section   56B.