Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 90

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a person is receiving a social security pension or benefit (the old payment ); and

                     (b)  either:

                              (i)  a different kind of social security pension or benefit (the new pension or benefit ) becomes payable to the person; or

                             (ii)  a service pension or income support supplement becomes payable to the person;

the old payment is cancelled, by force of this section, immediately before the day on which the new pension or benefit or the service pension, as the case may be, becomes payable to the person.

             (2)  In this section:

"social security benefit" does not include parenting payment.