Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 30B

  (1)   In this Division, unless the contrary intention appears:

"compensation" includes:

  (a)   any payment in the nature of compensation; and

  (b)   any damages recoverable at law from the Commonwealth, a State, a Territory or any other person (whether within or outside Australia), in respect of injury to, or the death of, a person; and

  (c)   any amount paid under a compromise or settlement of a claim for damages referred to in paragraph   (b);

but does not include any amount that represents expenses incurred in medical or hospital treatment.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Part, a payment of arrears of periodic compensation payments is not a lump sum compensation payment.

Note:   For lump sum payments of compensation see section   30C. For periodic payments of compensation see section   30D.

  (3)   In sections   30G and 30H:

"damages" does not include an amount that has been paid under a notice under section   51 of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence - related Claims) Act 1988 .

  (4)   In sections   30L and 30M:

"international organisation" means:

  (a)   an organisation:

  (i)   of which 2 or more countries, or the governments of 2 or more countries, are members; or

  (ii)   that is constituted by persons representing 2 or more countries, or representing the governments of 2 or more countries; or

  (b)   an organisation that is:

  (i)   an organ of, or office within, an organisation described in paragraph   (a); or

  (ii)   a commission, council or other body established by an organisation so described or such an organ; or

  (iii)   a committee, or subcommittee of a committee, of an organisation described in paragraph   (a), or of such an organ, council or body.