Veterans' Entitlements (Income Support Supplement Permanent Incapacity for Work) Determination 1999 (Cth)

Veterans' Entitlements (Income Support Supplement — Permanent Incapacity for Work) Determination 1999

The REPATRIATION COMMISSION makes this Determination under subsection 45AA (1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated 10 December 1999.

NEIL JOHNSTON             BRIAN FLYNN             PAUL STEVENS

       President                 Acting Deputy President           Commissioner

Veterans' Entitlements (Income Support Supplement — Permanent Incapacity for Work) Determination 1999

made under the

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Contents

Page

1  Name of Determination   3

2  Commencement   3

3  Definition   3

4  Purpose of Determination   3

5  Circumstances of permanent incapacity   3

6  Kind of work for subpara 5 (2) (b)   4

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Veterans' Entitlements (Income Support Supplement — Permanent Incapacity for Work) Determination 1999.

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999.

1. Definition

In this Determination:

Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

Note   Commission has the same meaning as in the Act, that is, the Repatriation Commission.

1. Purpose of Determination

This Determination specifies the circumstances in which a person is permanently incapacitated for work for eligibility for an income support supplement under the Act.

1. Circumstances of permanent incapacity

(1)   A person is permanently incapacitated for work for subparagraph 45A (1) (b) (iii) of the Act if:

(a)    the person is permanently blind in both eyes; or

(b)    the person has a physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment that has the consequences mentioned in subsection (2).

(2)   The consequences are:

(a) the impairment, assessed under the Impairment Tables in Schedule 1B of the Social Security Act 1991 as if it were an impairment for that Schedule, is 20 points or more; and

(b)    the Commission is satisfied, when determining a claim, that, solely because of the impairment, the person cannot do work of the kind mentioned in section 6 for the following 2 years.

1. Kind of work for subpara 5 (2) (b)

For subparagraph 5 (2) (b), the kind of work is work:

(a)    for at least 30 hours a week at award wages or above; and

(b)    that exists in Australia even if not, for a particular person, in the locally accessible labour market.