Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 209A

  (1)   The Commonwealth is liable to pay an energy supplement to a person for a day if:

  (a)   Special Rate Disability Pension:

  (i)   is payable to the person for the day; or

  (ii)   would be payable to the person for the day apart from section   204 and paragraph   398(3)(b); and

  (b)   the person resides in Australia on the day; and

  (c)   on the day the person either:

  (i)   is in Australia; or

  (ii)   is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 6 weeks.

Note:   Section   424L may affect the person's entitlement to the energy supplement.

  (2)   The daily rate of the supplement is 1 / 7 of $10.75.