57APayment where beneficiary incapable

57A Payment where beneficiary incapable

57A Payment where beneficiary incapable

(1) If the Board is of the opinion that a person to whom a benefit is payable is incapable of administering his or her affairs because of illness, imprisonment or for any other cause, the Board may pay the benefit to someone else to be applied wholly for the care, maintenance, benefit and support of the person otherwise entitled to the benefit, or any person wholly or partly dependent on the person.

(2) Any payment made under this section is taken to have been made to the person who, but for this section, would be entitled to the benefit.

s 57A: Ins 1993 No 111, Sch 7.