S.L. 318.1 Art. 12Provisions as to questions and applications.

(1) If a person desires to raise any question as to the fulfillment or the continued fulfillment of the statutory conditions, or as to the disqualification of a pensioner, or as to the rate or a pension, or as to the receipt at any time by a person of a pension when that person was not entitled to receive a pension, or a pension at that rate, or to make an application for the alteration or revocation of the provisional allowance of a claim for a pension, that person may do so by sending to the Director of Social Services a written statement of the question or written application as the case may be, together with a summary of any evidence in support of his allegations, and the Director of Social Services shall investigate, and, subject to the provisions of this regulation, treat the question or application in the same manner, mutatis mutandis, as he is by these regulations required to treat a claim: Provided that the Director of Social Services shall not be bound to investigate the question or the application in any case in which -

(a) the evidence adduced by the person in support of the allegations made is not, in the opinion of the Director of Social Services, substantial; or

(b) less than six months have elapsed since the pension was granted or since a similar question was determined.

(2) Where under the provisions of the Act, payment of a pension is discontinued upon the raising of a question as to the disqualification of the pensioner, the Director of Social Services shall notify the pensioner of the alleged reaasons for disqualification and that payment of the pension will be suspended pending the decision of the question.

(3) If it appears at any time that a pensioner who is in receipt of a pension at a certain rate will at some future date become entitled to a pension at a higher or at a lower rate, a question as to the rate at which the pension should be paid as from that future date may be raised at any time not longer that three months before that future date, and if the Director of Social Services is satisfied that the pension will become payable at a different rate at any time within three months from the date on which the question is raised, the Director of Social Services may provisionally determine that the pension shall, as from a stated date, not being more than three months later than the date on which the question is raised, be paid at a stated different rate, and any such provisional determination shall as from the stated date unless previously revoked or altered take effect according to the terms thereof.