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SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS -- GENERAL LAW REFORM) (VETERANS' AFFAIRS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 220 OF 2009) - REG 20

Transitional provision (VEA, Part III)

         (1)   This regulation applies if:

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

               (b)    immediately before the veteran's death, a person was not the partner of the veteran; and

                (c)    the person would have been the widow or widower of the veteran, for section 38 of the VEA, if the Act had been in force at the time of the veteran's death.

         (2)   Part III of the VEA applies to the person as if the veteran had died on 1 July 2009.



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