Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS -- GENERAL LAW REFORM) (VETERANS' AFFAIRS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 220 OF 2009) - REG 23

         (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 an eligible child of the veteran; and

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

         (2)   Benefits under the Scheme prepared by the Commission under Part VII of the VEA are not payable to the person before 1 July 2009.