SOCIAL SECURITY - applicant's receipt of age pension suspended on his departure for overseas - Administrative Appeals Tribunal finds applicant not eligible for age pension on ground he was not an Australian resident and affirmed suspension - proper construction of general eligibility criterion for a pension in s 29(1)(a) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (Cth) - relationship between ss 7(1) and (2) (defining Australian resident) and s 7(3) of the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth) and s 29(1)(a) -whether factors in s 7(3) for determining whether a person is residing in Australia displaced by a contrary intention - whether mere temporal presence in Australia suffices to establish residency - whether open to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to affirm the decision to suspend, as opposed to cancel, the age pension - appeal dismissed.
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