52FPensions for spouses or de facto partners

#### 52F Pensions for spouses or de facto partners 52F Pensions for spouses or de facto partners > > (1) Where a person referred to in section 52A (1) who has not received a benefit under this Division dies, the spouse or de facto partner of the person is entitled to receive a pension under this section on receipt by STC of an application by the spouse or de facto partner for that pension. > > > (2) The pension which a spouse or de facto partner of a person is entitled to receive under this section is a pension at the rate of two-thirds of the pension that would have been payable to the person had the person been entitled to pension under section 52E immediately before dying. > > > (3) This Act applies to and in respect of a spouse or de facto partner who is entitled to receive a pension under this section in the same way as it applies to and in respect of a spouse or de facto partner of a contributor, being a spouse or de facto partner to whom pension is payable under this Act, and so applies as if the pension payable under this section were a pension payable under section 30 by virtue of the death of a contributor. > > **s 52F:** Ins 1985 No 46, Sch 3 (6). Am 1993 No 111, Sch 6 (52); 1996 No 39, Sch 4.