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provided to a person in the class.

     Section 88A of the Act enables the Repatriation Commission to extend treatment-eligibility in the Act so that a person may be provided with treatment for any injury/disease, irrespective of whether it is service-related and may be provided with treatment where no injury/disease exists (e.g. frailty).  In the Act, eligibility for treatment is generally (but not always) dependent on whether a person's injury/disease is service-related and is always dependent on the person suffering from an injury/disease.

     Section 88A is used in the current situation to confer eligibility for treatment (either transition care or care received under a Home Care Package) on a veteran who is a former prisoner of war or the recipient of the Victoria Cross who may not be suffering from an injury/disease that is service-related or who may not be suffering from an injury/disease at all but who is frail.

     In either situation the person is, by virtue of this determination, eligible for transition care or Home Care Package, under the Treatment Principles.

     Eligibility for the treatment enables the Repatriation Commission to accept financial responsibility for the co-payment a former prisoner of war, or an entitled veteran awarded the Victoria Cross has paid, or is liable to pay, for the Home Care Package or transition care.

Part 2 Specified Class of Person

  A person who:

    (a)  is a veteran; and

      (b)   is a former prisoner of war or the recipient of the Victoria Cross;

is eligible to be provided with the specified treatment.

Part 3 Specified Kind of Treatment

The kind of treatment a person within the specified class is eligible to be provided with under Part V of the Act is:

 (a)  Home Care Package;
    (b)  transition care.