Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS AMENDMENT (DIRECT DEDUCTIONS AND OTHER MEASURES) ACT 2004 - NOTES

Act No. 94 of 2004 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 5 April 2006

[This Act was amended by Act No. 9 of 2006]

Amendment from Act No. 9 of 2006

[Schedule 2 (item 27) repealed and substituted item 86 of Schedule 1
and added item 86A to Schedule 1

Schedule 2 (item 27) commenced immediately after 29 June 2004]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Part 1--Direct deduction arrangements

Part 2--Victoria Cross allowance

Part 3--Automatic grant of income support supplement to age pensioners and wife pensioners

Part 4--Calculation of disability pension arrears

Part 5--Partner service pension for Norfolk Island residents

Part 6--Calculation of rent assistance

Part 7--Reduction in pension arrears resulting from partner's receipt of service pension

Part 8--Value of financial assets for purposes of deeming rules

Part 9--Deemed income and actual income from accrued returns

Part 10--Means test exemption of certain superannuation assets

Part 11--Income and assets test treatment of ATO small superannuation accounts and private rental income

Part 12--Ceiling rate service pension

Part 13--Offences

Part 14--Disposal of income and assets

Part 15--Compensation recovery provisions

Part 16--Minor and technical amendments

[Assented to 29 June 2004]

The Parliament of Australia enacts: