Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 45UI

             (1)  For the purposes of this Division, a person's annual notional partnered pension rate is set out in the following table:

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, the apportioned partnered amount is:

where:

"period not a war widow or war widower" is the number of days in so much of the partner part of overall qualifying period as occurred when the person was not a war widow/war widower--pensioner.

"partner part of overall qualifying period" is the number of days in so much of the overall qualifying period as occurred when the person was a member of a couple.

"provisional payment rate" is:

                     (a)  if the person:

                              (i)  has, during some or all of the partnered part of the person's overall qualifying period, deferred an age service pension or a partner service pension; and

                             (ii)  is not permanently blind;

                            the sum of the adjusted percentage of the person's maximum basic rate under point SCH6-B1 and the person's pension supplement basic amount worked out, in each case, as at the date of grant of the designated pension if it were assumed that the person were a member of a couple at that date; or

                     (b)  if the person:

                              (i)  has, during some or all of the partnered part of the person's overall qualifying period, deferred an age service pension or a partner service pension; and

                             (ii)  the person is permanently blind;

                            the sum of the person's maximum basic rate under point SCH6-B1 and the person's pension supplement basic amount, worked out as at the date of grant of the designated pension if it were assumed that the person were a member of a couple at that date; or

                     (c)  if the person:

                              (i)  has, during some or all of the partnered part of the person's overall qualifying period, deferred an age pension; and

                             (ii)  is not permanently blind;

                            the sum of:

                            (iii)  the adjusted percentage of the person's maximum basic rate under Table B in point 1064-B1 of the Social Security Act 1991; and

                            (iv)  the person's pension supplement basic amount;

                            worked out, in each case, as at the date of grant of the designated pension if it were assumed that the person were a member of a couple at that date; or

                     (d)  if the person:

                              (i)  has, during some or all of the partnered part of the person's overall qualifying period, deferred an age pension; and

                             (ii)  is permanently blind;

                            the sum of:

                            (iii)  the maximum basic rate under Table B in point 1065-B1 of the Social Security Act 1991 ; and

                            (iv)  the person's pension supplement basic amount;

                            worked out, in each case, as at the date of grant of the designated pension if it were assumed that the person were a member of a couple at that date.

"period a war widow or war widower" is the number of days in so much of the partner part of overall qualifying period as occurred when the person was a war widow/war widower--pensioner.

"annual pension rate" is the person's annual pension rate, worked out as at the date of grant of the designated pension, in accordance with section 45UF.

Note:          There may be circumstances where one or other of the bracketed parts of the formula will have a nil value.

             (3)  For the purposes of this section, a person's adjusted percentage is the percentage worked out using the following formula (for rounding up, see subsection (4)):

where:

"maximum basic rate" is the sum of the person's maximum basic rate under point SCH6-B1 and the person's pension supplement basic amount, ascertained as at the date of grant of the designated pension.

             (4)  A percentage worked out under subsection (3) is to be calculated to 3 decimal places. However, if a percentage worked out under subsection (3) would, if it were calculated to 4 decimal places, end in a digit that is greater than 4, the percentage is to be increased by 0.001.