EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules No. 335
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
Veterans’ Entitlements Regulations (Amendment)
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
Section 216 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are by the Act required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
This regulation provides for a change to the Repatriation Commission’s prescribed address for the service of decisions and reasons of the Veterans’ Review Board.
Details of the regulation are set out below.
Address of the Commission - Subsection 140(2A) of the Act
Section 140 of the Act provides that where the Veterans’ Review Board makes a decision upon a review it must make its decision in writing, prepare a statement of reasons for that decision, file the decision and the statement of reasons and serve a copy of the decision and statement of reasons on the applicant and the Repatriation Commission.
Subsection 140(2A) of the Act provides that service of the necessary documents on the Repatriation Commission must be at the prescribed address of the Commission.
Existing regulation 9A in the Principal Regulations prescribes the address of the Repatriation Commission for the purposes of subsection 140(2A) of the Act.
The amendment to existing regulation 9A substitutes a new address for the service of Veterans’ Review Board decisions and reasons.