Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1963

Payment of pay, pension, superannuation or other allowance, annuity or gratuity where beneficiary is incapacitated.

24.—(1) Where an amount in respect of any pay, pension, superannuation or other allowance, annuity or gratuity payable by any Minister is so payable to a person (in this section referred to as the beneficiary) with respect to whom that Minister is satisfied, on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner, that he is unable by reason of mental or physical disability to give a receipt for the amount, that Minister may pay the amount—

(a) wholly or partly to any institution or person having care of the beneficiary,

(b) wholly or partly to such persons as that Minister considers to be dependants of the beneficiary, or

(c) as to part thereof, to any institution or person having care of the beneficiary and, as to the remainder, wholly or partly to such persons as that Minister considers to be dependants of the beneficiary, and in such manner as that Minister thinks fit.

(2) Any payments made under this section shall discharge such Minister as makes them as fully as if they were made directly to the beneficiary.