Where:
(a) before the commencement date, an amount of pension, allowance or other benefit under a repealed Act, or under the regulations in force under a repealed Act :
(i) had accrued and was unpaid on the death of the person to whom that pension, allowance or other benefit was payable; or
(ii) would have been payable to a deceased claimant in respect of a period before his or her death if the claimant had not died; and
(b) the Commission had not paid that amount to the legal personal representative of the deceased person or to any other person before the commencing date, sections 123 to 123E (inclusive) of the Veterans ' Entitlements Act extends to and in relation to that amount as if it were an amount of pension, allowance or other pecuniary benefit payable under the Veterans ' Entitlements Act .