Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160:reg:3:p210
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 210/293)
Character Range: 2749425–2753946

severe injury adjustment.
             Spouse has the same meaning as in the SRC Act.
             Spouse amount means the amount payable under subsection 11.2.8.1.
             SRC Act means the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
             SRC Compensation means compensation payable under subsection 17(3) or 17(4), or section 24 or 27 of the SRC Act.
             State compensation has the same meaning as in section 119 of the SRC Act.
             State workers' compensation has the same meaning as in section 118 of the SRC Act.
             The Secretary means the Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

11.2.4A Dependent child

1.  A dependent child means a person who meets all of the following.
    a.                                                                     They meet the definition of child under section 1.3.35.
    b.                                                                     They are wholly or partly dependent on the member for economic support.
    c.                                                                     They meet one of the following.
                                                                           i.                                                                                                       They are under 16 years old.
                                                                           ii.                                                                                                      They are 16 or more years old, but less than 25 years old, and meet the education test.
2.  In this section, education test means meeting both of the following.
    a.                                                                     The person is in full-time education at a school, college, university or other educational institution.
    b.                                                                     The person is not ordinarily in employment or working on their own account.

11.2.5 Some aspects of dependency

1.  A child of a member is taken to have been wholly or partly dependent on a member at a time if the child would have been so dependent at that time but for an incapacity of the member as the result of an injury.
2.  A child of a member who, immediately before the occurrence of an event, lived with the member is taken to have been wholly dependent on the member at the time of the occurrence of that event.
3.  A child of a member who was born alive after the member's death is taken to have been born immediately before the member's death and to have been wholly dependent on the member at the time of the member's death.
4.  A child of a member who was conceived before the time of an assessment of the member's SRC compensation mentioned in subsection 11.2.11.2, and was born alive after that time, is taken to have been born immediately before that time and to have been wholly dependent on the member at that time.
5.  In deciding whether a child is or was dependent on a member at a time, none of these amounts payable for the child under the Social Security Act 1991 are to be taken into account.
    a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Family allowance.
    b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Family allowance supplement.
    c.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Child disability allowance.
    d.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Double orphan pension.

11.2.6 Damages or compensation recovered or received for the benefit of a member's