59Payment of pension bonus or pension bonus bereavement payment after death

59  Payment of pension bonus or pension bonus bereavement payment after death  (1) This section sets out the only circumstances in which a pension bonus or a pension bonus bereavement payment will be payable after the death of the person concerned.  (1A) If:  (a) a person claims a pension bonus; and  (c) at the time of the person’s death, the person had received the bonus; and  (d) after the person’s death, the Secretary determines that the person’s bonus is to be increased under section 93K or 93L; the increase is payable to the legal personal representative of the person.  (a) a person claims a pension bonus or a pension bonus bereavement payment; and  (c) at the time of the person’s death, the claim had been granted, but the person had not received the bonus or payment; the bonus or payment is payable to the legal personal representative of the person.  (a) a person claims a pension bonus or a pension bonus bereavement payment; and  (c) at the time of the person’s death, the claim had not been determined;  (d) the Secretary must determine the claim after the person’s death as if the person had not died; and  (e) if the claim is granted—the bonus or payment is payable to the legal personal representative of the person.  (a) under paragraph (3)(d), the Secretary is required to determine a claim for pension bonus after a person’s death; and  (b) at the time of the person’s death, the person’s claim for age pension had not been determined; then, for the purposes of the determination of the claim for pension bonus, the following provisions have effect:  (c) the requirements of paragraph 92C(a) of the 1991 Act are taken to be satisfied if:  (i) the person would have started to receive an age pension if he or she had not died; and  (ii) that age pension would have been received otherwise than because of a scheduled international social security agreement;  (d) Division 6 of Part 2.2A of the 1991 Act has effect as if:  (i) a reference in that Division to a particular rate were a reference to the rate that would have been applicable to the person if the person had not died; and  (ii) a reference in that Division to the date of grant of the age pension were a reference to the date on which the age pension would have been granted if the person had not died;  (e) this Act has effect as if subsections 17(2) and 34(2) were omitted.  (4A) If a pension bonus is payable to the legal personal representative of a person under subsection (2) or (3), any increase in that bonus determined by the Secretary under section 93K or 93L is also payable to that legal personal representative.  (5) If a pension bonus or pension bonus bereavement payment is paid under subsection (2) or (3), the Commonwealth has no further liability to any person in respect of that bonus or payment. Division 5—Protection of social security payments