Veterans' Entitlements (Special Assistance) Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 1) (Cth)

Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance) Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 1)

Select Legislative Instrument No. 20, 2013

I, Quentin Bryce, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated 1 March 2013

Quentin Bryce

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Warren Snowdon

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs

Contents

1............ Name of regulation............................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance) Regulations 1999                    2

1Name of regulation

This regulation is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance) Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 1).

2Commencement

This regulation commences on 20 March 2013.

3Authority

This regulation is made under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4Schedule(s)

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance) Regulations 1999

1  After regulation 2

Insert:

2A  Purpose

For section 106 of the Act, these regulations prescribe the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, the Commission may grant assistance or benefits to a person.

2  Subregulation 3(1) (note at end)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note:       Other words and expressions used in these Regulations have the meaning given by the Act, for example Commission and family member.

3  Regulation 18

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

18  Amount of crisis payment

                  The amount of a crisis payment payable to a person is the amount worked out using the following formula:

where:

Additional supplement is either:

                    (a)  the clean energy supplement added to the person’s maximum basic rate of service pension under Module BB of the Rate Calculator; or

                    (b)  if paragraph (a) does not apply to the person—an amount that is equivalent to the amount that would have been added to the person’s maximum basic rate of pension entitlement under paragraph (a) if the person’s pension entitlement had been a service pension.

Maximum basic rate is the rate of the person’s pension entitlement, worked out in accordance with Module B of the Rate Calculator.

Pension supplement is the supplement for the person’s maximum basic rate, worked out in accordance with Module BA of the Rate Calculator.

Note:       Clean energy supplement, Rate Calculator and service pension are defined in the Act.