Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS -- GENERAL LAW REFORM) (VETERANS' AFFAIRS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 220 OF 2009) - REG 11

         (1)   This regulation applies if:

                (a)    a member died before 1 July 2009; and

               (b)    a person is an eligible young person; and

                (c)    immediately before the member's death, the person was not a dependant of the member; and

               (d)    the person would have been a dependant of the member if the Act had been in force at the time of the member's death.

         (2)   For subsection 258 (1) of the MRCA:

                (a)    the power to determine a scheme to provide education and training is taken to include the power to determine a scheme to provide education and training to the person; and

               (b)    benefits under a scheme determined under subsection 258 (1) of the MRCA are not payable to the person before 1 July 2009.