15BYPayment where beneficiary incapable

15BY Payment where beneficiary incapable

15BY Payment where beneficiary incapable

(1) Where a person to whom a benefit under this Part is payable is, in the opinion of the board, incapable of administering his own affairs by reason of his illness, imprisonment or any other cause, the board may pay the benefit to some other person to be applied wholly for the care, maintenance, benefit and support of the person to whom, but for the provisions of this section, the benefit would be payable, or of any person wholly or partly dependent on him.

(2) Any payment made under subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been made to the person entitled to the benefit.

s 15BY: Ins 1977 No 46, Sch 1 (4). Am 1993 No 111, Sch 7.