Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 Access to RAP Equipment in Institutions and under Health Programs) Instrument 2007 (Cth)

Australian Government

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Access to RAP Equipment in Institutions and under Health Programs) Instrument 2007

Instrument No. R11/2007

The Repatriation Commission, pursuant to subsection 16(6) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, varies the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 (Instrument No. R30 of 2006), in accordance with the Schedule.

Dated this              7th     day of                   June             2007

MARK SULLIVAN        ED KILLESTEYN               BILL ROLFE

PRESIDENT           DEPUTY PRESIDENT      COMMISSIONER

REPATRIATION COMMISSION

[1] Name of Instrument

This Instrument is the Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Access to RAP Equipment in Institutions and under Health Programs Instrument) 2007.

[2] Commencement

This Instrument commences on the day after it is

registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

[3] Variation of the Treatment Principles

The Schedule varies the Treatment Principles.

Schedule    Variations

[4]     Paragraph 1.4.1 (definition of “community services”)

After this definition, insert:

“consumable rehabilitation appliance” means an appliance with a short term function and includes appliances such as continence products.

[5]     After paragraph 11.2.1

Insert:

Note: an example where the Commission could request the return of a rehabilitation appliance is where it cannot be accommodated in an institution.

[6]     Paragraph 11.3.6

Omit:

The Commission will not approve the supply of a rehabilitation appliance to an entitled person in an institution where:

Substitute:

Subject to paragraph 11.3.6A, the Commission will not approve the supply of a rehabilitation appliance to an entitled person who is in an institution or who has entered a Commonwealth, State or Territory program where:

[7]     After paragraph 11.3.6(b)

Insert:

(bb)     the Commission is satisfied that the appliance should be supplied under the Commonwealth, State or Territory program; or

[8]     After paragraph 11.3.6(c)

Insert:

11.3.6A    (a)   paragraphs 11.3.6(a) and (b) do not apply to a rehabilitation                   appliance that was approved for an entitled person before the person was admitted to the institution;

(b)   paragraph 11.3.6(bb) does not apply to a rehabilitation appliance that was approved for an entitled person before the person entered the Commonwealth, State or Territory program.

11.3.6B    Paragraph 11.3.6A does not apply to a consumable rehabilitation appliance.