Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 97, 1984 - SECT 55

55. (1) An application under section 107VC or section 107VD of the
Repatriation Act that had not been decided by the Tribunal before the
commencing day shall, on and after the commencing day, be treated as if it
were an application duly made under section 107VC of the Repatriation Act as
amended by this Act, and that Act, as so amended, applies, subject to this
section, to and in relation to it accordingly.

(2) Where a person would, but for the repeal of Part IIIA of the
Repatriation Act, have had, on or after the commencing day, a right to make
application under section 107VC or section 107VD of that Act to the Tribunal
for a review of a decision of the Commission made before that day, application
may, subject to sub-sections (3) and (4) of this section, be made under
section 107VC of the Repatriation Act as amended by this Act to the Veterans'
Review Board for a review of that decision.

(3) An application may be made under sub-section (2) for a review of a
decision refusing an application for a service pension within 3 months after
the service on the applicant of a copy of that decision, but not otherwise.

(4) Sub-section (2) does not apply to a decision of the Commission if an
application for a review of that decision by the Tribunal had been made before
the commencing day.

(5) Sub-sections 107VC (3) and (4) of the Repatriation Act, as amended by this
Act, do not apply to or in relation to an application to which sub-section (1)
or (2) of this section applies.

(6) An application under section 107VE of the Repatriation Act that had not
been decided by the Tribunal before the commencing day shall, on and after the
commencing day, be treated as if it were an application duly made under
section 90C of the Repatriation Act, as amended by this Act, and that Act, as
so amended, applies to and in relation to it accordingly.

(7) Where a copy of a decision of the Commission of a kind referred to in
section 107VE of the Repatriation Act was served on a person in accordance
with section 47A of that Act within 3 months before the commencing day but the
person had not, before the commencing day, made application under section
107VE of that Act for a review of that decision, the person may, on or after
the commencing day, but within 3 months after the copy of the decision was so
served on him, make application under section 90C of the Repatriation Act, as
amended by this Act, for a review of that decision.