Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS -- GENERAL LAW REFORM) (VETERANS' AFFAIRS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 220 OF 2009) - REG 9

         (1)   This regulation applies if:

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

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

                (c)    before 1 July 2009, the person was not a dependant of the member; and

               (d)    immediately before the member's death, the person was wholly or mainly dependent on the member; and

                (e)    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 253 (1) of the MRCA, compensation is payable to the person for a week or part of a week occurring after 30 June 2009, as if the member had died on 1 July 2009.