24Claim by exempt partnered person

24  Claim by exempt partnered person  (1) If a person is an exempt partnered person at the end of the person’s last bonus period, the lodgment period applicable to the person’s claim for pension bonus is the period:  (a) beginning at the end of that bonus period; and  (b) ending at:  (i) the time of the last occasion on which the person’s partner could have lodged a claim for a pension bonus; or  (ii) the end of the period of 13 weeks after the person ceases to be a member of the same couple (whether because of the death of the person’s partner or for any other reason);   whichever comes first.  (2) For the purposes of this section, a person is an exempt partnered person at a particular time if, at that time, the person is a member of a couple and:  (a) the person’s partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the pension bonus scheme; or  (b) the person’s partner is an accruing or non‑accruing member of the corresponding scheme under Part IIIAB of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act.