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.