57BPayment where beneficiary is missing

57B Payment where beneficiary is missing

57B Payment where beneficiary is missing

(1) If the Board is unable, after reasonable inquiry, to find a person to whom a benefit is payable, the Board may pay the benefit to someone else to be applied wholly for the care, maintenance, benefit and support of any person wholly or partly dependent on the person who would otherwise be entitled to the benefit.

(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 57B: Ins 1993 No 111, Sch 7.