51Department to give CSC information around time of medical discharge

51 Department to give CSC information around time of medical discharge

(1) If a covered ADF member is about to be, or has been, medically discharged while under 60, the Department must, within 2 months before or after the discharge, give CSC any information the Department has about the member that is relevant to: (a) classifying the member; or (b) working out the rate of invalidity pension for the member after the discharge.

Note: Sections 46 and 47 give the CSC powers to get information from a person to whom a benefit may be payable or to whom an invalidity pension is being paid.

(2) This section does not apply if section 31A applies to the member.

Note: Under section 31A, a person is taken in certain circumstances to have been medically discharged even though he or she ceased to be a covered ADF member for a different reason.