Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where a determination under this Act is in force determining that the death of a veteran is war - caused, a dependant of the deceased veteran is eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part for any injury suffered, or disease contracted, by the dependant, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, from and including the date as from which a pension under Part II became payable to the dependant or would have become payable to the dependant but for the operation of subsection 13(7), 30(3), 30C(2) or (4) or 30D(1) or (3) of this Act or the dependant being in receipt of a pension under the Social Security Act.
(a) a deceased veteran was, immediately before the veteran's death, in receipt of a pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 22(4) or 24(4) or (6) or at a rate that had been increased under section 27 by reason that the veteran's pension was in respect of incapacity of a kind described in item 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 in the table in subsection 27(1); or
(b) a pension has been granted under Part II, after the death of a veteran, in respect of the veteran at the rate specified in subsection 22(4) or 24(4) or (6) or at a rate that had been increased under section 27 by reason that the veteran's pension was in respect of incapacity of a kind described in item 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 of the table in subsection 27(1); or
(c) a deceased veteran was, before the MRCA commencement date, a prisoner of war at a time when the veteran was on operational service;
a dependant of the deceased veteran is eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part for any injury suffered, or disease contracted, by the dependant, whether before or after the commencement of this subsection, from and including the day immediately following the day on which the veteran died.
(2A) A reinstated pensioner is eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part for any injury suffered or disease contracted by the pensioner whether before or after the commencement of this Act. The pensioner is eligible from and including the date as from which a pension under Part II:
(a) became payable to the pensioner; or
(b) would have become payable except for:
(i) the operation of subsection 30(3); or
(ii) the pensioner being in receipt of a pension under the Social Security Act.
(3) A child of a deceased veteran who is in receipt of, is eligible to receive or would, but for subsection 13(7), be eligible to receive a pension under Part II by virtue of subsection 13(4) is eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part for any injury suffered, or disease contracted, by the child, whether before or after the commencement of this Act.
(4) A child of a deceased veteran is eligible to be provided with treatment under subsection (3) from and including:
(a) subject to paragraph (b)--the day (in this subsection referred to as the relevant day ) immediately following the day on which the veteran died; or
(b) if the Commission is satisfied that the child was then being maintained by a parent, adoptive parent or step - parent, the earliest day after the relevant day as from which the Commission is satisfied that the child was not being so maintained.
(5) Where the Commission is satisfied that a dependant of a veteran referred to in paragraph 85(9)(a) requires urgent treatment for an injury suffered, or disease contracted, by the dependant, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, the dependant is eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part for that injury or disease:
(a) at a hospital formerly operated and maintained by the Commission, if the Commission is satisfied that provision of the treatment will not affect the capacity of the person operating the hospital to provide treatment at that hospital for veterans eligible to be provided with treatment by virtue of subsection 85(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7) or (8) or dependants of veterans eligible to be provided with treatment by virtue of a preceding subsection of this section; or
(b) at a hospital in a country area of a State operated by that State, being a hospital in respect of which the Commission has entered into arrangements of a kind referred to in paragraph 89(1)(b); or
(c) at a hospital in a Territory, being a hospital operated by the Commonwealth or the Government of that Territory in respect of which the Commission has entered into arrangements of a kind referred to in paragraph 89(1)(b).
(6) Where a dependant of a veteran has been provided with
treatment at a hospital under subsection (5) for an injury or disease,
the Commission may provide further treatment for the dependant for that injury
or disease otherwise than at a hospital of a kind referred to in that
subsection if it is of the opinion that that further treatment is desirable.