Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS -- GENERAL LAW REFORM) (VETERANS' AFFAIRS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 220 OF 2009) - REG 22

         (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 child of the veteran; and

                (c)    the person would have been a child of the veteran if the Act had been in force at the time of the veteran's death.

         (2)   For paragraph 86 (4) (a) of the VEA, the veteran is taken to have died on 30 June 2009.