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Division 10.—General. Provisions with respect to aboriginal natives. 47. Where, in the opinion of the Director-General, it is desirable to do so, he may direct that payment of the pension of an aboriginal native of Australia shall be made, on behalf of the pensioner, to an authority of a State or Territory controlling the affairs of aboriginal natives, or to some other authority or person whom the Director-General considers to be suitable for the purpose, and payment shall, until the direction is revoked, be made accordingly. Suspension of pension while recipient in hospital for the insane. 48. Where an age or invalid pensioner becomes an inmate of a hospital for the insane, his pension shall, without further or other authority than this section, be deemed to be suspended, but, when the pensioner is discharged from the hospital for the insane, payment of his pension shall, subject to this Part, be resumed and he shall be entitled to payment of pension in respect of the period during which his pension was so suspended, but not in any case in respect of a longer period than four weeks. Pension to cease if pensioner leaves Australia. 49.—(1.) A pension shall cease to be payable in respect of any period during which the pensioner is absent from Australia, unless the Director-General is satisfied that the absence is of a temporary nature, in which case payment may be continued in respect of the period of that absence, but not in any case in respect of a longer period than twelve weeks. (2.) Payment of an instalment of a pension shall not in any event be made to a person outside Australia. Benevolent asylum inmates. 50. If an inmate of a benevolent asylum becomes an age or invalid pensioner, or if an age or invalid pensioner becomes an inmate of a benevolent asylum, he shall, so long as he remains an inmate of the benevolent asylum, be paid so much of his pension as does not exceed the rate of Thirty-three pounds sixteen shillings per annum, and the balance of his pension shall be paid to the person controlling the benevolent asylum for the maintenance of the pensioner in the benevolent asylum. Claimant unfit to be entrusted with pension. 51. Where the Director-General is satisfied that a claimant for an age or invalid pension, although otherwise qualified to receive a pension, is unfit to be entrusted with a pension and should, in his own interests, enter a benevolent asylum, the Director-General may direct that a pension shall not be granted until the claimant has become an inmate of a benevolent asylum. Imprisonment of pensioner. 52.—(1.) If a pensioner is imprisoned, following upon his conviction for an offence, the Director-General may suspend his pension during the term of imprisonment or may forfeit any instalment of the pension falling due during the term of imprisonment. (2.) Where, in any such case, the pensioner has a wife or child dependent on him, the Director-General may authorize the payment of the whole or any portion of— (a) any instalment of the pension which would have been payable to the pensioner if his pension had not been suspended; or (b) any instalment of the pension so forfeited, as the case may be, to his wife or child or to some other person approved by the Director-General for the benefit of the wife or child. Application of insurance moneys. 53.—(1.) Where a house which is owned by a pensioner or his spouse and is the permanent home of the pensioner is destroyed or damaged, the Director-General may consent to any insurance moneys received by the pensioner or his spouse in respect of the destruction or damage being used for the purpose of building a house in which the pensioner will reside or of repairing the first-mentioned house, and if, within a period determined by the Director-General, the moneys are so used, the rate of the pension payable to the pensioner or his spouse shall not be reduced by reason of the ownership of those moneys. (2.) During, the period determined under the last preceding sub\-section, the value of the land on which the house was built shall not be taken into account in computing the value of the property of the pensioner or his spouse.