Kay Patterson (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Only just. I would like the minister to give an undertaking that we will go back and have a look at this to see if we need to spell it out in more detail. I am not convinced. I will not try and do an amendment on the run, but I do not know how binding the minister’s undertaking is if I move from a disability pension to an age pension. If we are amending the bill further, maybe the next explanatory memorandum could outline that—there should be somewhere where it clearly states that. One of the problems is that, if it is not clear to the people at Centrelink, customers will go to a Centrelink office and get half-baked advice. We have to make it very clear, and I do not have a lot of comfort that it is very clearly spelt out. If I could see legal advice to that effect, I would be happier. I will not pursue it at the moment because it is not going to affect many people as I do not think there would be many who are on the cusp of moving from disability pension to age pension—but there may be. I would not like to see this tested. If I could have written legal advice, that would most probably satisfy me, so I will be seeking that.