Veterans' Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 6 of 2001 (Cth)

VETERANS’ ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986

Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum

Determination No. 6 of 2001

I, JEANETTE RICKETTS, delegate of the Repatriation Commission, hereby determine the “amount or one of a class of amounts” specified in Part 2 of the attached Schedule to this instrument to be an “exempt lump sum” in accordance with paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. 

Dated this Seventh day of August 2001.

JEANETTE RICKETTS

Delegate

Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 6 of 2001

Schedule

Part 1: Preliminary and Interpretation

1.1                   NAME OF DETERMINATION

This determination is the Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 6 of 2001.

1.2COMMENCEMENT

This determination commences on the date of signature.

1.3                   DEFINITIONS

In this determination:

“Act” means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

“Regulations” means the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance – Motorcycle Purchase) Regulations 2001.

“Motorcycle Benefit” means any payment authorised by the Repatriation Commission, under the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance – Motorcycle Purchase) Regulations 2001, to reimburse disabled veterans for the amount of Goods and Services Tax paid for the purchase of motorcycles or eligible parts.

“Disabled veteran” has the same meaning as stated in Regulation 4 of the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance – Motorcycle Purchase) Regulations 2001.

Part 2:  Amount or class of amounts declared to be an exempt lump sum

2.1Amount or Class of Amounts

1. Paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Act provides that an amount, or class of

amounts, received by a person is an exempt lump sum if the amount, or class of amounts, is determined to be an exempt lump sum.

1. Under section 216 of the Act the Governor-General has approved Regulations, known as the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance – Motorcycle Purchase) Regulations 2001, which authorise the reimbursement to disabled veterans of the amount of Goods and Services Tax paid on the purchase of motorcycles or eligible parts.

1. The Regulations were gazetted on 2 August 2001, with a date of effect of 1 July 2000.

2.2Application – Exempt Lump Sums

1. It is appropriate to determine that an amount, or class of amounts,

paid to a person, on or after the commencement of this Determination, in accordance with the Regulations, is an exempt lump sum for the purposes of paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Act from the date that the amount is paid.