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caring.

     "Respite Care" means the service under the MRCA Home Care Program consisting of in‑home respite, residential care (28 day respite) or emergency short term home relief.

    "respite care in an institution" means care provided as respite to a person in an institution.

"retirement village" has the same meaning it has in the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 and as applied by the Treatment Principles.

Note: retirement village is defined in section 5M of the Veterans' Entitlements Act1986 (VEA) and is also applied by the Treatment Principles.  The intention is that the Commission is to have the same power as the Repatriation Commission to determine premises have the same function as a retirement village for the purposes of Part 11 of the Principles.

"revoked MRCA Treatment Principles" means the MRCA Treatment Principles (Instrument 2004 No. M21).

    "Rural Enhancement Scheme" means the scheme jointly established by the Commission (under section 285 of the Act) and the Repatriation Commission, in consultation with the Australian Medical Association Ltd, and which has the following features:

         (a) general practitioners who provide medical services (services) to entitled persons under the Rural Enhancement Scheme (Scheme) receive higher payments (as set out in the Principles) from the Department for those services than they would receive if the services were not provided under the Scheme;

         (b) the Scheme only applies to general practitioners who provide medical services to entitled persons at certain rural public hospitals (identified rural hospitals);

         (c) an identified rural hospital is a hospital at which a medical practitioner may provide a medical service (service) to the public and receive from the state or territory government that, respectively, administers the state or territory in which the hospital is located, an extra amount (extra amount) for that service.

         (d) the extra amount is an amount representing the difference between the amount the State or Territory actually pays the medical practitioner for the service and the fee for the service listed in the Medicare Benefits Schedule.

         Note: as at 1 January 2005 the Rural Enhancement Scheme only operated in NSW, Vic, SA and WA.
    "service injury" and "service disease" are defined in section 5 of the Act; and in relation to a person with a DRCA disability mean the person's injury (within the meaning of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence‑related Claims) Act 1988) that was caused by, or arose out of, the person's employment in the Defence Force that is covered by the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence‑related Claims) Act 1988.
    Note: in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 the definition of injury includes a disease (see section 5A of that Act).

              "service injury" has the meaning it has in section 5 of the Act.

              "service disease" has