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Marginal note:Course of study

• 68 (1) For the purposes of this section and sections 69 and 72, course of study means a course of training or instruction given by a school, college, university or other institution of an educational, professional or technical nature.

• Marginal note:Benefits to child of a pensioner

  (2) Each child of a pensioner who, at the date of the pensioner’s death, is under 18 years of age or is 18 or more years of age but less than 25 years of age and enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study is entitled

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• Marginal note:Continuing entitlement

  (4) The child of a pensioner who, at the date of the pensioner’s death, was entitled to an annual allowance shall be entitled to the annual allowance for any period during which the child is enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study until the child reaches 25 years of age.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (5) A child, at the date of the pensioner’s death, is deemed to have been enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study if the child

  • (a) is again enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study, or dies, no later than the last day of the fifth month after the month in which the child ceased to be enrolled in and pursuing the full-time course of study; or

  • (b) is not again enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study within that period due to illness and is again enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study, or dies, no later than the last day of the twelfth month after the month in which the child ceased to be enrolled in and pursuing the full-time course of study.

• Marginal note:Scholastic break

  (6) A child is deemed not to have ceased to be enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study if the child fulfils the conditions set out in paragraph (5)(a) or (b).

Marginal note:Declaration

69 The entitlement to an annual allowance of a child who is 18 or more years of age but less than 25 years of age and enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study is subject to the child submitting to the Minister, in respect of each period of enrolment,

• (a) a declaration by a responsible officer of the relevant institution that the child is or was enrolled in a full-time course of study; and

• (b) a declaration by the child that the child is or was pursuing a full-time course of study.

Marginal note:Terms of payment

• 72 (1) The annual allowance shall be paid in equal monthly payments in arrears,

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  • (b) in the case of a child, until the end of the month during which the earlier of the following occurs:

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    • (ii) if the child is enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study, the child ceases to be enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of study or reaches 25 years of age.

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Marginal note:Commencement of annual allowance

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• Marginal note:Recommencing studies

  (2) In the case of a child who has ceased to be entitled and who again becomes so entitled, the commencement date is the first day of the month in which the child enrols in and pursues a full-time course of study.