Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999 - SECT 19

                   If:

                     (a)  a person is receiving an age or disability support pension; and

                     (b)  the person is a member of a couple; and

                     (c)  the person ceases to be a member of a couple; and

                     (d)  immediately before the person ceases to be a member of a couple:

                              (i)  the person was receiving an age or disability support pension; and

                             (ii)  the partner was receiving an age or disability support pension; and

                     (e)  the partner's period of Australian working life residence (immediately before the person ceases to be a member of a couple) is longer than the period that would now be the person's period of Australian working life residence under section 17;

the person's period of Australian working life residence is to be equal to the partner's period of Australian working life residence (immediately before the person ceases to be a member of a couple).