Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Amendment (Review Pathway) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Amendment (Review Pathway) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 20 March 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Matthew Keogh

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................ 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2020 2

1Name

This instrument is the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Amendment (Review Pathway) Regulations 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025 commences.	21 April 2025 (paragraph (b) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2020

1

Before section 1

Insert:

Part 1—Preliminary

2

Section 5 (at the end of note 1)

Add:

; (c) Simplification Act.

3

Before section 6

Insert:

Part 2—Matters arising out of the enactment of the MRCA

4

After section 7

Insert:

Part 3—Matters arising out of the enactment of Schedule 3 to the Simplification Act

8Continued effect of certain instruments

1. (1)

   If:

   1. (a)

      before the review pathway commencement day, an instrument was made under, or for the purposes of, subsection 170B(1) of the old VEA; and

   2. (b)

      immediately before the review pathway commencement day, the instrument is in force;

the instrument continues to have effect, on and after the review pathway commencement day, as if it had been made under subsection 353P(1) of the MRCA.

1. (2)

   In this section:

old VEA has the same meaning as in section 25 of the Act.

review pathway commencement day has the same meaning as in section 25 of the Act.