Veterans' Children Education Scheme (Rent Assistance) Instrument No. 1/2003 (Cth)

REPATRIATION COMMISSION

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Veterans' Children Education Scheme (Rent Assistance) Instrument

Instrument No. 1/2003

The Repatriation Commission makes this Instrument under subsection 117(2) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated   7 March   2003

NEIL JOHNSTON PRESIDENT IAN CAMPBELL DEPUTY PRESIDENT PAUL STEVENS
COMMISSIONER

Repatriation Commission

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1. Name of instrument

This Instrument is the Veterans' Children Education Scheme (Rent Assistance) Instrument No. 1/2003.

1. Commencement

This Instrument commences upon its approval by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs.

Note: subsection 117(3) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 provides that a variation of the

Veterans' Children Education Scheme is of no effect unless approved by the Minister for                 Veterans' Affairs.

3    Variation of the Veterans' Children Education Scheme

Schedule 1 varies the Veterans' Children Education Scheme.

Schedule 1                   Variations

[1]              Paragraph 2.6.3

after this paragraph, insert:

Note (1): rent assistance, where the student is outside Australia, is also subject to paragraph 5.5.

Note (2): as at 1 April 2003, rent assistance, where the student is outside Australia, was, among other things, limited to premises in Australia and for a maximum period of 26 weeks.

[2]   Paragraph 5.5.1

omit:

A student

substitute:

Subject to paragraph 5.5.2, a student

          after paragraph 5.5.1, insert:

5.5.2           Rent assistance payable under the Scheme, whether to a student in or outside Australia, is only payable in the same circumstances that rent assistance would have been payable to the student under the Social Security Act 1991 if the student had not been a student receiving benefits under the Scheme but had been a person receiving youth allowance under that Act.

Note 1 – rent assistance criteria under the Social Security Act 1991 are set out in point 1067G-D1 of that Act.

Note 2 – as at 1 April 2003, rent assistance must, among other things, be only for premises in Australia and the maximum period that rent assistance is payable, while a student is outside Australia, is 26 weeks.

Note 3 – in order to receive rent assistance for premises in Australia, while studying outside Australia, a student must also satisfy paragraph 2.6.

Note 4 – if the rent assistance provisions of the Social Security Act 1991 are amended then those amended provisions apply to rent assistance under the Scheme (see the definition of Social Security Act 1991 in paragraph 1.2.).