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Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973
45Payment of benefits otherwise than to person entitled
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#### 45 Payment of benefits otherwise than to person entitled
(1) Where, in the opinion of CSC, payment of an instalment, or part of an instalment, of pension benefit, or of an amount of any other benefit, should, by reason of the person who, but for this section, would be entitled to the payment, being a child, or being a person who is insane or undergoing imprisonment or otherwise being under a disability, or for any other reason which CSC thinks proper, be made to a person other than the person who would be so entitled to the payment, CSC may authorize the payment to be made to the other person, and payment shall be made to the other person accordingly.
(2) A payment of an instalment of pension benefit payable to a child that, by virtue of subsection (1), is paid to a person other than the child, shall be applied for the maintenance, education or other benefit of the child.