Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 - Removal of Prior Approval under the Rehabilitation Appliances Program) Instrument 2007 (Cth)

Australian Government

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Removal of Prior Approval under the Rehabilitation Appliances Program) Instrument 2007

Instrument No. R19/2007

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              16th   day of                   July             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 – Removal of Prior Approval under the Rehabilitation Appliances Program) 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

[1] Paragraph 3.2.1(r)

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

(r) provision of rehabilitation appliances specified as requiring prior approval in or under Part 11;

[2] Paragraph 3.2.1(t)

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

(t) repair of a rehabilitation appliance specified as requiring prior approval in or under Part 11;

[3] Paragraph 11.2.2

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

11.2A Prior Approval

11.2A.1         If under this Part or under the documents entitled, respectively, the “RAP National Schedule of Equipment” in force on 1 July 2007 and the "Rehabilitation Appliances Program (RAP) National Guidelines" in force on 1 July 2007, the Commission's prior approval is required for the supply of a rehabilitation appliance to an entitled person or the alteration to, replacement or repair of a rehabilitation appliance, then the Commission is not to accept financial liability for the supply, alteration, replacement or repair, as the case may be, unless it has granted that prior approval.

Note: in granting prior approval the Commission must consider the matters in paragraph 3.2.2.