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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017-2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Bill
2018
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(Veterans' Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Veterans'
Entitlements Act 1986, and for related purposes
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Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Bill 2018
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
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Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Bill 2018
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Veterans'
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Entitlements Act 1986, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Act 2018.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
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1 Subsection 53K(4)
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Omit "section 53M", substitute "sections 53M and 53NAA".
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2 Subsection 53L(6)
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Omit "section 53M", substitute "sections 53M and 53NAA".
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3 At the end of section 53N
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Add:
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(3) This section has effect subject to section 53NAA.
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4 After section 53N
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Insert:
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53NAA Matters affecting bereavement payments under this
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Subdivision
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If:
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(a) bereavement payments mentioned in subsection 53K(3),
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53L(4) or 53N(2) are payable to the pensioner in relation to
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the death of the partner; and
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(b) after the partner died, an amount of a pension, or a social
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security pension, to which the partner would have been
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entitled if the partner had not died has been paid under this
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Act or the Social Security Act 1991; and
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(c) the Commission is not satisfied that the pensioner has not had
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the benefit of that amount;
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the following provisions have effect:
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(d) the amount referred to in paragraph (b) is not recoverable
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from the pensioner or from the personal representative of the
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partner, except to the extent (if any) that the amount exceeds
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the amount of the bereavement payments referred to in
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paragraph (a);
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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(e) the amount of the bereavement payments referred to in
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paragraph (a) is to be reduced by the amount referred to in
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paragraph (b).
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5 Application provision
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Section 53NAA of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, as inserted by
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this Schedule, applies in relation to the following:
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(a) bereavement payments referred to in paragraph 53NAA(a) of
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that Act that became payable on or after 1 January 1996;
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(b) deaths referred to in paragraph 53NAA(a) of that Act that
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occurred on or after 1 January 1996;
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(c) amounts referred to in paragraph 53NAA(b) of that Act that
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have been paid on or after 1 January 1996.
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