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VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 220

Statutory Rules 1993 No. 220

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Veterans' Affairs

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Veterans' Entitlements Regulations (Amendment)

Section 216 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

The amending Regulations correct the reference, in Regulation 2 of the Veterans' Entitlements Regulations, to the definition of 'veteran' in the Act. The amending Regulations thus restore the original intent of the Veterans' Entitlements Regulations and make no substantive change.

The Veterans' Entitlement Amendment Act 1991 relocated a definition of 'veteran' from subsection 5(1) of the Act to paragraph (a) of the definition of 'veteran' in subsection 5C(1). The reference in paragraph (a) of Regulation 2 to a definition of 'veteran' in subsection 5 (1) of the Act was therefore no longer correct.

The amending Regulations replace paragraph (a) of the definition of 'veteran' with a definition referring to the subsection in which 'veteran' is now defined. They refer instead to paragraph (a) of the definition of 'veteran' in subsection 5C (1) of the Act.

The amending Regulations leave paragraph (b) of the definition of 'veteran', which refers to subsection 68 (1) of the Act, unchanged.