Veterans’ Entitlements (Income Exempt Lump Sum – Japanese internment Compensation) Determination 2015 (Cth)

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

Veterans’ Entitlements (Income Exempt Lump
Sum – Japanese internment Compensation) Determination 2015

Instrument 2015 No. R16

I, MARK HARRIGAN, delegate of the Repatriation Commission, hereby determine under paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA) that the amount specified in Part 2 is an exempt lump sum for the purposes of the definition of “ordinary income” in subsection 5H(1) of the VEA. 

Dated this                  2nd   day of February   2015

Mark Harrigan

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MARK HARRIGAN

Part 1: Preliminary and Interpretation

1.1    Name of determination

This determination is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Income Exempt Lump     Sum – Japanese internment Compensation) Determination 2015.

1.2    Commencement of determination

This determination commences on the day after registration.

1.3    Revocation  

The Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No.3           of 2001 is revoked.

1.4    Definition

In this determination:

compensation payment means:

(a) a compensation payment as defined in the Compensation (Japanese Internment) Act 2001; or

(b) a compensation payment made under the Veterans’ Entitlements (Compensation – Japanese Internment) Regulations2001.

Part 2: Exempt Lump Sum

2.1    If a person has received a compensation payment, then the amount is an exempt lump sum.