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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1520 ..

Page 4, li MR WHITECROSS (continuing):

ne 11, subclause (1), insert the following definition:

" `pensioner' means -

(a) a person to whom, or in respect of whom, 1 of the following pensions or allowances under the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth is being paid:

(i) an age pension under Part 2.2;

(ii) a disability support pension under Part 2.3;

(iii) a wife pension under Part 2.4;

(iv) a carer pension under Part 2.5;

(v) a sole parent pension under Part 2.6;

(vi) a widowed person allowance under Part 2.7;

(vii) a widow B pension under Part 2.8;

(b) a service pensioner within the meaning of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth;

(c) a person to whom section 22 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth applies, who is being paid at the maximum rate referred to in subsection 22(3) of that Act;

(d) a person to whom a pension under Part II of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth is being paid and to whom -

(i) subsection 22(4), section 23 or 24 or subsection 30(1) of that Act applies; or

(ii) section 27 of that Act applies by virtue of a war-caused injury or war-caused disease of a kind specified in item 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in the table in subsection 27(1); or

(e) a person who is, or is within a kind or class of persons that is, prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;".

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